MSI Z87-G43 GAMING (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	113% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G43 GAMING (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131203
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '19 at 00:28
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770-$75 176,321 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	69.4% Good	Memory 80.7 1-Core 100 2-Core 192 71% 124 Pts	4-Core 314 8-Core 449 48% 382 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	113% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 186 Parallax 179 119% 170 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 166 Splatting 122 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 80GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 155 172 170 166 168 162 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Read 354 Write 218 Mixed 227 SusWrite 166 54% 241 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 37.5 133% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 207 154% 205 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 393GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC49 SusWrite @10s intervals: 123 105 86 109 157 152 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	83.3% Excellent	Read 168 Write 165 Mixed 48 SusWrite 122 91% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.6 121% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/8GX 1315 CT102464BD160B.C16 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	47.1% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 14.9 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 12 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 14.5 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 79.3 50% 79.3 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 51%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical Z87-G43 GAMING (MS-7816) Builds (Compare 613 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 37%

Jet ski

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

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

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	168x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	87x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	82x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	42x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	41x

SSD
870 QVO 1TBSamsung $107Bench 95%, 80,665 samples	24x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	22x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	18x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C11 2x4GBG.SKILLBench 56%, 6,575 samples	16x
AM2L16BC4R1-B0ES 0420 0420 AM2L16BC4R1-B0ES 0420 16GBUnknownBench 56%, 13 samples	11x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $585

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 $45	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