MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	123% 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	88% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150509
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '17 at 15:53
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 75.5 2-Core 217 70% 126 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 403 51% 386 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 204 Parallax 188 141% 189 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 119 Splatting 126 102% 125 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4007 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2686 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 66 55 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15802233588	88% Excellent	Read 497 Write 387 Mixed 416 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 89.6 4K Mixed 30.3 125% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 20.1 53% 104 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 124%
Transcend SSD370 512GB-$173 1,585 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 105GB free Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1796 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4406 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 7824 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 7 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 16938 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 63750 (F2) Unknown 100 100 208997 (F5) Unknown 100 100 125184	93.5% Outstanding	Read 478 Write 425 Mixed 456 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 77.3 4K Mixed 34.3 116% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 59.5 104% 203 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 105%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 176 8050 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3950 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3939 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 172 172 84348 (C2) HDA temperature 124 97 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	81.2% Excellent	Read 137 Write 146 Mixed 136 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.22 104% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 87%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 397GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 70 8949 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9162 (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 11057 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8731 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 197569413146 (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 5 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 90561	81.1% Excellent	Read 126 Write 157 Mixed 120 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.48 122% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial ST102464BA160B.16F 2x8GB 1,015 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.1% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.4 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 20.9 SC Mixed 19.6 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 61%

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Gaming 56%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 43%

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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	209x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	93x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	92x

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: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $491

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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