MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	15.7 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 01 '17 at 15:28
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 3.4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 116 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 455 61% 454 Pts	64-Core 447 28% 447 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.5% Good	Lighting 83.3 Reflection 82.6 Parallax 79.1 68% 81.7 fps	MRender 74.7 Gravity 76.7 Splatting 72.2 61% 74.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 293GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 270 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 321 (64) Unknown 100 100 1244096 (65) Unknown 100 100 340608 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 188 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2676 (B7) Unknown 100 100 4 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 146029543455 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 270 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 270 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2271 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1498 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1962 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2914 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 270	70% Good	Read 471 Write 267 Mixed 269 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 47.2 4K Mixed 11.7 86% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 25.7 74% 162 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 92%
Corsair Force GS 128GB-$150 5,048 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 12327444 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -12214886979360 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2218 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 110 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 49 42952884260 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12327444 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12327444 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12327444 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25243 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19412 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19412 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15167	70.7% Very good	Read 410 Write 169 Mixed 229 59% 269 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 19.4 119% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 56.3 84% 158 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 86%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2TB 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 175 167 4225 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2995 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2203 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 127 127 219944 (C2) HDA temperature 119 99 28 (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	77.3% Very good	Read 136 Write 134 Mixed 131 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.06 4K Write 0.27 4K Mixed 0.08 16% 0.14 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M1A1600C9 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 20GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.6% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 18.7 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.2 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 63%

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Typical Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) Builds (Compare 4,013 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 56%

Gunboat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

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	147x
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 $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