MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	69.1% 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.

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

Run History

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System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150519
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 18 '17 at 05:00
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4771-$129 11,180 User benchmarks, average bench 73% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 196 79% 134 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 583 61% 488 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 151 Parallax 141 113% 144 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 142 Splatting 110 99% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370S 256GB-$115 11,742 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3390 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 675 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 46 (A3) Unknown 100 100 23 (A4) Unknown 100 100 135738 (A5) Unknown 100 100 183 (A6) Unknown 100 100 82 (A7) Unknown 100 100 133 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 96 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 444 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 9932 (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 2 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 646099 (F2) Unknown 100 100 873999 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1085904	69.1% Good	Read 489 Write 275 Mixed 351 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 37.4 4K Mixed 18.1 73% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 225 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 14.9 72% 162 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 114%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 172GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 172 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14417 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8990 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 695 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 170 170 91546 (C2) HDA temperature 110 107 37 (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	55.5% Above average	Read 95.8 Write 97.4 Mixed 89.5 71% 94.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.17 81% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 84%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 93GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 172 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16899 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11183 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 711 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 107627 (C2) HDA temperature 118 108 29 (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	61% Good	Read 112 Write 101 Mixed 108 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.25 87% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 91GB free Firmware: HP23 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52428269 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16040 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 425872091 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 30848 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 10 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 4067 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 6 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 395 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 689176614 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 34359738406 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 23 52428269 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (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 -129987185183369 (F1) Unknown 100 253 953399220 (F2) Unknown 100 253 732735701	39.2% Below average	Read 69 Write 67.6 Mixed 66.1 51% 67.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.06 4K Mixed 0.36 76% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 70%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 995GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	36.3% Below average	Read 85.3 Write 85.1 Mixed 56.7 95% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.16 65% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36.3% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	67.9% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 21.6 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 20.7 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 85%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 34%

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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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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