MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	119% 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.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 20:28
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 118 2-Core 225 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 651 66% 534 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.4% 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: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 156 Parallax 134 122% 146 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 143 Splatting 115 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 128GB-$40 2,673 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 80GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^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 3644 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 933 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 146 (AE) Unknown 100 100 50 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 59 176094511130 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 10508655440 (F7) Unknown 100 100 329501772 (F8) Unknown 100 100 871074050	103% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 343 Mixed 412 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 37.3 150% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 70.9 130% 259 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 104%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3414 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 923 (B1) Unknown 98 98 73 (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 70 54 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 22 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20642129558	119% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 493 Mixed 514 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 45.4 173% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 331 DQ Mixed 166 174% 287 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 369GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4715336 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 33980945 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5224 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1491 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 851983 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 55 437518362 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2154 (C2) HDA temperature 26 45 68719476762 (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 6751688593809 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15562356314 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40517490052	72.6% Very good	Read 100 Write 152 Mixed 124 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 5.48 4K Mixed 0.66 195% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 108%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 188GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 7 (03) Spinup time 103 100 7841 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3494 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4509 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2127 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 22075 (C2) HDA temperature 122 93 25 (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 6	26.8% Poor	Read 52.5 Write 40.8 Mixed 77.1 44% 56.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.33 75% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 26.8% Great: 51%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 84GB free Firmware: 1AJ10102 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 26 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 48 9092 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17512 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9309 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 34 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4608 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 24 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 39 1024393239 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 17 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 34 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 17670	69% Good	Read 114 Write 126 Mixed 125 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.57 133% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	60.2% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 17 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 21.3 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 76%

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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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Value: 92% - Outstanding

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 $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