MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.1% 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	71.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	May 20 '17 at 18:50
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 235 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 468 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 465 29% 465 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 100 92% 110 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 101 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 175GB free (System drive) Firmware: R1311 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 253 100 3716 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1022 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 115 (A9) Unknown 100 100 281 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 40 (AE) Unknown 100 100 69 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 33 141735034907 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 289 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10401 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4931 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5388 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	71.9% Very good	Read 482 Write 307 Mixed 365 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 88.9 4K Mixed 13.3 110% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 30.6 DQ Write 87.2 DQ Mixed 38.1 35% 52 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 109%
SanDisk X110 mSATA 64GB-$111 32 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 60GB free Firmware: X231200 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6303 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1817 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 161 (A9) Unknown 100 100 79 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 67 (AE) Unknown 100 100 164 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 54 231929806886 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4416 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2702 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3283 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	44.7% Average	Read 351 Write 99.3 Mixed 151 44% 201 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 28.7 4K Mixed 11.6 72% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 29.7 DQ Mixed 10.4 26% 56.4 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 3504 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8830 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 56899315 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4861 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 67 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 504889374 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9816 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 11 3504 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -79787607448050 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7716280 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1667034706	67.7% Good	Read 123 Write 113 Mixed 95.3 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.44 88% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 69%
WDC WD10 EARS-00Y5B1 1TB 39 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 821GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	41% Average	Read 98.2 Write 99.8 Mixed 90.8 124% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.18 62% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 12,350 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	64.7% Good	MC Read 22.4 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 20.5 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 64%

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Typical Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) Builds (Compare 4,010 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

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

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	1,367x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,199x
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	146x
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 $273	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 $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