MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.6% 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	118% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140718
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 23 '17 at 00:55
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 96.1 1-Core 121 2-Core 223 85% 147 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 600 61% 496 Pts	64-Core 608 38% 608 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4991) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.6% Very good	Lighting 98.2 Reflection 102 Parallax 93.2 80% 98 fps	MRender 86.8 Gravity 88.6 Splatting 73.8 67% 83.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 339GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4448 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2344 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 73 60 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 143 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10021401493	86.8% Excellent	Read 505 Write 180 Mixed 336 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 72.8 4K Mixed 30 143% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 106 130% 232 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 126%
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 500GB 3,936 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 263GB free Firmware: EMT41B6Q 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 1883 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1044 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 65 44 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1030694157	115% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 416 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 93.6 4K Mixed 48.7 179% 62.1 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 120 146% 257 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 128%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1429 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 753 (B1) Unknown 99 99 39 (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 69 61 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8541864325	118% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 498 Mixed 512 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 35.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 44.4 167% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 330 DQ Mixed 162 172% 284 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
WD Black 5TB (2015)-$71 7,245 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 3.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 185 100 9708 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 552 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1066 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 528 (C2) HDA temperature 122 117 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 107%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 744GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 9033 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6118 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8215 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4157 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5892 (C2) HDA temperature 120 111 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	62% Good	Read 114 Write 102 Mixed 100 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.41 113% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GB 7,967 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	70.8% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 21.1 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 24.1 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 79%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 40%

Jet ski

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) - $149

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	581x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	264x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	214x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	54x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	44x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	26x

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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