MSI B85M-E45 (MS-7817)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	62.4% 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 (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7817
Motherboard	MSI B85M-E45 (MS-7817) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 25 '20 at 01:58
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	48%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$51 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 99.6 2-Core 198 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 376 50% 376 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060S (Super)-$510 319,148 User benchmarks, average bench 100% Gigabyte(1458 3FF1) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.19 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 121 Parallax 124 101% 123 fps	MRender 178 Gravity 111 Splatting 104 104% 131 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 106%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Z400s 256GB-$221 10,770 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2333000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 207 177 181 274 285 279 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Read 476 Write 291 Mixed 180 SusWrite 234 66% 295 MB/s	4K Read 13.4 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 11.1 69% 30 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 71.4 90% 158 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown MI64C1D1629Z1 1302 PSD38G16002 16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.5% Below average	MC Read 10.1 MC Write 10.8 MC Mixed 9 28% 9.97 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 10.2 SC Mixed 9.6 28% 9.73 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 59%

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

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Gaming 25%

Surfboard

Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation 20%

Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI B85M-E45 (MS-7817) - $107

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	508x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	305x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	204x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	226x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	203x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	141x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	80x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	78x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	97x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 27,462 samples	61x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	60x

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