MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 77.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	111% 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	96.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 17 '17 at 10:46
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	77.3% Very good	Memory 86.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 206 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 519 56% 443 Pts	64-Core 586 36% 586 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.3% 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 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 151 Parallax 132 120% 143 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 141 Splatting 112 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 188GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14686 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1907 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 45 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 94 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15000035651	80.1% Excellent	Read 502 Write 299 Mixed 354 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 21.9 134% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 44.5 DQ Write 79.4 DQ Mixed 82.6 57% 68.9 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 118%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 104GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9706 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1151 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 43 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15592947798	94.4% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 412 Mixed 417 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 28.4 154% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 45.4 DQ Write 98.5 DQ Mixed 27.2 34% 57 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8245 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 981 (B1) Unknown 96 96 66 (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 50 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9930723719	96.1% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 414 Mixed 411 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 87.9 4K Mixed 25.2 147% 52.7 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 87.9 90% 138 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 115%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 24GB free Firmware: 5.0.2a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2991611 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -31147102807722 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3074 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 232 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2991611 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2991611 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2991611 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6732 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6043 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6043 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6885	48.7% Average	Read 188 Write 105 Mixed 122 30% 138 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 14.5 111% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 26.5 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 9.85 24% 48.1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 79%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 367GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7890 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11554 (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 93 93 33669 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5986 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 487653405 (C2) HDA temperature 75 55 571539481 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 755898 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	45.8% Average	Read 79.4 Write 79.9 Mixed 86.4 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.46 102% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 23,732 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.6% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 18.5 MC Mixed 15.8 50% 17.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.1 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 44%

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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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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