MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	114% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '16 at 14:28
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	HKG-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 240 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 628 67% 535 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3363) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 148 Parallax 128 119% 141 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 141 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 480GB-$300 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 144% 297GB free Firmware: 0C4005T2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 18 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (64) Unknown 100 100 263040 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 2 (B2) Unknown 100 100 60 (B4) Unknown 100 100 17998 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 39 100 176094969895 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 181 (F1) Unknown 100 100 175 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 300	169% Outstanding	Read 1,174 Write 1,029 Mixed 965 235% 1,056 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 19.9 147% 59 MB/s	DQ Read 430 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 20.4 116% 266 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 169% Great: 181%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 223GB free Firmware: 525ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -78752520330049 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 578 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 75 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 43 55837392921 (C2) HDA temperature 25 43 55837392921 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2930 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3652 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3652 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10056	54.5% Above average	Read 185 Write 155 Mixed 121 34% 154 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 13.8 108% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 39.3 61% 114 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2128 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 391 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 43 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14007371525	114% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 404 Mixed 421 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 45.5 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 47.3 180% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 107 136% 244 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130713520 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12359 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4324131795 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16344 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 688 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 54 4833214489 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 42 42 117934 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 -140737488355303 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 48975512081323 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36677921201 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16763701641	89.1% Excellent	Read 155 Write 156 Mixed 143 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.23 70% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 114%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 915GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8706 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1231 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 3992 (0A) Spinup retry count 124 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 560 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2818 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 214749216792 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1554 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 218 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	85.4% Excellent	Read 156 Write 142 Mixed 146 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.23 113% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	60.6% Good	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.7 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 18.9 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 63%

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Gaming 56%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) - $242

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	1,365x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,198x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	390x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	319x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	164x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	145x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	144x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	84x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	77x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	74x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $532

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16