MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	116% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 19 '18 at 04:46
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 117 2-Core 237 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 474 64% 474 Pts	64-Core 479 30% 479 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.8% Good	Lighting 82.9 Reflection 82.8 Parallax 72.4 68% 79.4 fps	MRender 73.2 Gravity 76.1 Splatting 78.4 62% 75.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2148 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 295 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 54 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 8 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4112388884	116% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 416 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 47.9 182% 63.6 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 122 147% 258 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 687GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20792568 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 695 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3738013 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5221 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 695 (B7) Unknown 92 92 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 77 93 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 588775459 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 44 44 112724 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 68719476771 (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 -79396765432269 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6558622757 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44758893533	92.2% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 152 Mixed 162 122% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.21 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 248GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1976 (03) Spinup time 174 170 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1788 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12470 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1768 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 157 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1636 (C2) HDA temperature 108 99 35 (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	59.5% Above average	Read 107 Write 100 Mixed 134 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.23 100% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 109%
Seagate ST3250824AS 250GB-$148 4,794 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 166GB free Firmware: 3.AHH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 97 16500747 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3381 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 39108447186 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13465 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3376 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 54 672661544 (C2) HDA temperature 40 46 34359738408 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 77 48 208422003 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	33.6% Below average	Read 56.6 Write 60.1 Mixed 59.2 44% 58.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.43 96% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x4GB 5,347 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	63.2% Good	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 19.8 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 21.1 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 63%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821) - $100

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	58x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	45x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	17x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	13x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	10x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
99U5584-010.A00LF 99U5584-010.A00LF 9905584-014.A00LF 99U5584-005.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 58%, 11 samples	9x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $374

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	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