MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 84.1%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.7% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

9 days ago, 9 days ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 08:03
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-4770K-$477 47,068 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	84.1% Excellent	SC Int 118 SC Float 118 SC Mixed 118 94% 118 Pts	QC Int 409 QC Float 434 QC Mixed 414 95% 419 Pts	MC Int 579 MC Float 619 MC Mixed 610 90% 603 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 52,776 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Gigabyte(1458 366E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1559 MHz, MLim: 1757 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	78.4% Very good	Lighting 261 Reflection 220 Parallax 241 78% 241 fps	MRender 163 Gravity 225 Splatting 154 78% 181 fps
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$160 13,710 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 62GB free Firmware: DXM04B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 40670 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 440 (B1) Unknown 63 63 1342 (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 72 58 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 247 (F1) Unknown 99 99 162048251807	91.7% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 313 Mixed 328 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 22 138% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 20.7 83% 184 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 99%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$163 42,690 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 48GB free Firmware: EXM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 29247 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 169 (B1) Unknown 96 96 221 (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 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 115646254691	121% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 502 Mixed 512 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 47.4 178% 66.3 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 155 167% 277 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 121%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$225 5,851 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 152 10666 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 193 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 167 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 122 (C2) HDA temperature 121 105 31 (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	88.6% Excellent	Read 180 Write 128 Mixed 136 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.74 4K Mixed 0.21 92% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 98%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$53 35,341 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 398GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 135 4183 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3750 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 44863 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 444 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 249 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 310368 (C2) HDA temperature 119 100 24 (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	78.8% Very good	Read 143 Write 132 Mixed 131 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.2 95% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 84%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$28 104,636 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 316GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3900 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2633 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 32414 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 260 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2525 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 27 (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	63.3% Good	Read 112 Write 109 Mixed 109 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.38 105% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws DDR3 1600 C9 4x2GB 291 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	58.3% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 19.7 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 63%

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Desktop 67%

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Workstation 40%

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

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $270Bench 81%, 42,904 samples	2,658x
Core i7-4770KIntel $477Bench 80%, 47,068 samples	1,808x
Core i7-4770Intel $305Bench 75%, 34,677 samples	347x

GPU
GTX 770Nvidia $279Bench 48%, 47,438 samples	729x
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 246,752 samples	700x
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 262,129 samples	676x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $174Bench 78%, 65,477 samples	510x
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $165Bench 77%, 46,595 samples	458x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	435x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 50%, 26,558 samples	229x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 49%, 25,783 samples	186x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 52%, 16,885 samples	180x

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Total price: $966

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $90
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $176	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $18