MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 37% Jet ski	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	39.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	87.1% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 16 '17 at 00:21
Run Duration	325 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 101 2-Core 205 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 553 59% 469 Pts	64-Core 556 34% 556 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3967) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	39.2% Below average	Lighting 51.8 Reflection 48 Parallax 42.8 42% 47.5 fps	MRender 39.4 Gravity 43.9 Splatting 39 33% 40.8 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 102GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21674 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 523 (B1) Unknown 98 98 90 (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 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 40 (EB) Unknown 99 99 62 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9141048523	111% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 451 Mixed 469 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 37.8 166% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 24.1 93% 201 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 119%
Kingston SMS200S330G 30GB 66 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 27GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2880522 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 61254823592429 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 510 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 79 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 61 17183866914 (C2) HDA temperature 34 61 17183866914 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2880522 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2880522 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2880522 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 918 (EA) Unknown 0 0 535 (F1) Unknown 0 0 535 (F2) Unknown 0 0 344 (F4) Unknown 100 100 196673564	50.8% Above average	Read 334 Write 60.7 Mixed 95.4 35% 163 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 59.1 4K Mixed 15 107% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 68.9 DQ Write 62.7 DQ Mixed 20.5 28% 50.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 62%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q 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 12634 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 114 (B1) Unknown 98 98 98 (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 63 52 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16299636222	87.1% Excellent	Read 526 Write 267 Mixed 372 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 24.4 148% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 37.7 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 120 102% 142 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 243154282 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8110690 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -87703232172918 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 59 672202781 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4757 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16509 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 17179869213 (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 -14778982465006 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3854919991 (F2) Unknown 100 253 887196339	83.5% Excellent	Read 136 Write 156 Mixed 139 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.27 86% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 96%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 16GB 2,737 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 11GB free, PID 007a Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	6.18% Terrible	Read 22.4 Write 5.74 Mixed 5.76 11% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 7.12 4K Write 0.003 4K Mixed 0.002 27% 2.38 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.18% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GB 8,730 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	60.3% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 20.8 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 63%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 44%

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

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	1,365x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,198x
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	145x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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