MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	99.8% 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	43.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150509
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '18 at 20:52
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 262 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 696 75% 596 Pts	64-Core 686 42% 686 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Nvidia(10DE 1B82) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 138 Parallax 131 106% 133 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 125 Splatting 104 89% 109 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 233GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8828781	112% Outstanding	Read 531 Write 419 Mixed 432 102% 461 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 44.5 178% 62.6 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 111 119% 195 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 128%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.2.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7479960 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 -28217935114158 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2410 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 302 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 51 51542949918 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7479960 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7479960 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7479960 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 32166 (EA) Unknown 0 0 29253 (F1) Unknown 0 0 29253 (F2) Unknown 0 0 32140	43.4% Average	Read 184 Write 101 Mixed 120 30% 135 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 82.3 4K Mixed 10.4 95% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23.2 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 32.6 34% 53.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 79%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 166 6558 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1632 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5503 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1211 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12615 (C2) HDA temperature 117 98 33 (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	74.3% Very good	Read 126 Write 133 Mixed 128 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.25 93% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 101%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 168 4400 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1687 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4183 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 935 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8041 (C2) HDA temperature 116 106 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	78.9% Very good	Read 154 Write 121 Mixed 125 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.19 95% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 4,003 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	62% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.8 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 19.8 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 55.8 72% 55.8 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 63%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816) - $217

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	400x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	206x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	142x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	92x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	43x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	34x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	32x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	27x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $475

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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