MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818)

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	93.9% 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.

System	MSI MS-7818
Motherboard	MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818) (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150511
Uptime	4.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '17 at 22:19
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 97.1 1-Core 122 2-Core 239 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 473 61% 458 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3775) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Lighting 81.1 Reflection 80.2 Parallax 69.1 66% 76.8 fps	MRender 71.1 Gravity 73.6 Splatting 75.8 60% 73.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 99 99 4722 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1620 (B1) Unknown 96 96 43 (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 58 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 69 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23761353193	93.9% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 349 Mixed 355 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 25.8 133% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 21.5 90% 204 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 118%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 17GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8993 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2946 (B1) Unknown 94 94 217 (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 74 60 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 509 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19367586126	63.6% Good	Read 365 Write 305 Mixed 336 75% 336 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 52.5 4K Mixed 16.3 81% 30 MB/s	DQ Read 208 DQ Write 76.9 DQ Mixed 60.5 66% 115 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 76%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 976GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 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 155 142 11250 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2141 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4819 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1614 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2076 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74.9% Very good	Read 136 Write 125 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.53 4K Mixed 0.31 120% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 98%
Seagate Backup+ BK 1TB 2,418 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 103GB free Firmware: 0410 Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	45.5% Average	Read 80.9 Write 77.5 Mixed 71.1 58% 76.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.22 75% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 58%
WD WD5002AALX-00J37A0 500GB 10,663 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 80GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 137 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7800 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11329 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3589 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7640 (C2) HDA temperature 105 93 38 (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	42.9% Average	Read 73.2 Write 76 Mixed 77.9 57% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.46 109% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 72%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 52GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 4383 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4876 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9582 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3071 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 303 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4572 (C2) HDA temperature 115 104 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	59.1% Above average	Read 113 Write 92.1 Mixed 101 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.44 127% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 62%
WD WD5002AALX-00J37A0 500GB 10,663 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 43GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 151 141 3433 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6353 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10891 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3590 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6190 (C2) HDA temperature 104 94 39 (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	44.3% Average	Read 77.1 Write 77.1 Mixed 73.2 57% 75.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.41 106% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2133 C9 4x4GB 1,327 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.2% Excellent	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 26.2 80% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 25.6 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 82%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 80%

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Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818) - $252

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	203x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	60x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	48x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	33x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	30x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
1600 CL9 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 7,092 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $584

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