MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815)

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7815
Motherboard	MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150512
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '17 at 05:34
Run Duration	286 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th 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 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 130 2-Core 240 89% 156 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 704 69% 566 Pts	64-Core 707 44% 707 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3303) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.6 92% 109 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 101 Splatting 102 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 512GB-$74 4,600 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 53GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^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 100 100 31150 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 775 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 132 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 263 (B5) Unknown 100 100 2723030434103 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 148 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	68.2% Good	Read 514 Write 256 Mixed 340 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 8.17 104% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 9.85 25% 49.9 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 81%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 30GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5113 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 34 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 67 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3182738036	110% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 410 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 48.1 186% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 48.8 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 118 106% 152 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 28208 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 630 (B1) Unknown 79 79 763 (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 64 53 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 147 (F1) Unknown 99 99 148934280310	74.2% Very good	Read 502 Write 123 Mixed 232 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 18.8 129% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 60 84% 161 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 116%
Hitachi Travelstar 5K750 750GB-$52 41,501 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 169GB free Firmware: JE4OA50A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 97 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 176 100 73014444033 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 5798 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 83 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 15617 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 121 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 554050912360 (BC) Unknown 100 100 262023217155 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 454885404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 81 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 786444 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 93020 (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 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	36.8% Below average	Read 65.8 Write 62.5 Mixed 65.2 49% 64.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.19 58% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 53%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 127GB free Firmware: D005SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 60296912 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11398 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 4314991104 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 43359 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1233 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 505217053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 261 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 10 10 180557 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 25769803805 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 41 60296912 (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 -109891033223215 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1589589623 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2825694447 (FE) Unknown 1 1 211	40.5% Average	Read 72.2 Write 68.8 Mixed 71 53% 70.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.42 93% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 58%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 6,017 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 653GB free, PID a007 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	37.7% Below average	Read 93.6 Write 86.5 Mixed 64.2 102% 81.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.21 66% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 43%
Kingston DataTraveler Ultimate USB 3.0 16GB-$44 125 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 2GB free, PID 1656 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	17% Very poor	Read 42.6 Write 38.2 Mixed 17.9 40% 32.9 MB/s	4K Read 5.51 4K Write 0.41 4K Mixed 0.28 44% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 17% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 4x4GB 2,772 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 21.4 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 26.5 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 48.6 82% 48.6 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 104%

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Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815) - $180

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	113x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	38x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	14x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	12x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $190Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	9x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	9x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBKingstonBench 70%, 5,910 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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