MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	49% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	62.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (99%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 10 '17 at 19:41
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	HUN-User
Background CPU	99%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.5 GHz, turbo 5.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 135 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 525 70% 525 Pts	64-Core 520 32% 520 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2972) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (57^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	49% Average	Lighting 60.3 Reflection 62.9 Parallax 61.5 49% 61.5 fps	MRender 70.5 Gravity 57.7 Splatting 53.2 49% 60.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9962148 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -50122268334791 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 68 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 40 60132163613 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 60132163613 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9962148 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9962148 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9962148 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 55834574849 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11094 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3845 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3845 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4608 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5242959	62.3% Good	Read 427 Write 123 Mixed 170 52% 240 MB/s	4K Read 18.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 20.4 110% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 34.1 49% 90.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 73%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 8GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 26285199880015 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1904 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 927 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2052 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1656 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1656 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5111	40.6% Average	Read 197 Write 59.3 Mixed 101 26% 119 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 59 4K Mixed 13.4 90% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 75.9 DQ Write 60.7 DQ Mixed 22.8 29% 53.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 51%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 495GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 11 (03) Spinup time 191 169 5433 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 819 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23829 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 809 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 186 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 645 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 34 (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	44% Average	Read 73 Write 80.2 Mixed 90.1 62% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.15 64% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 67%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 337GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 184952693 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7501 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 57 60574343404 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 44949 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3372 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 4295032870 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 366 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 589365282 (C2) HDA temperature 34 53 42949672994 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 24 184952693 (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 8469675560865 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2158088888 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1443197852	47.7% Average	Read 82.7 Write 83.6 Mixed 76.6 61% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.43 100% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 65%
Samsung HD155UI 1.5TB 1,454 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 221GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 79 43 6555 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14699 (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 14844 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 888 (B5) Unknown 100 100 13710939 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219043856416 (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 100 100 116 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 14966	48.8% Average	Read 81.6 Write 88.2 Mixed 83.1 64% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.39 95% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 20.7 69% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 23.1 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 55.8 72% 55.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 63%

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Desktop 77%

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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	1,200x
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 $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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