MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


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 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.5% 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150519
Uptime	3.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 12:39
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	31%

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 i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 220 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 644 64% 522 Pts	64-Core 595 37% 595 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36DD) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1632 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 118 Parallax 115 98% 118 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 103 Splatting 96.9 81% 99.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 mSATA 256GB-$398 658 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 167GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 100 100 456 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1169 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 19 (AE) Unknown 100 100 178 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 28 309238366252 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 750 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5892650178 (F7) Unknown 100 100 264938906 (F8) Unknown 100 100 203734029	105% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 466 Mixed 455 107% 478 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 92.4 4K Mixed 37.1 137% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 82.3 122% 230 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 106%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 117GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^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 100 100 167 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 507 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 13 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 58 180388954139 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 10843709575 (F7) Unknown 100 100 339047974 (F8) Unknown 100 100 167783429 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3537 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	72.8% Very good	Read 473 Write 191 Mixed 242 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 65.7 4K Mixed 24.8 103% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 47.8 89% 181 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 12970132 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -119846767413847 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2341 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 310 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 39 25772359709 (C2) HDA temperature 29 39 25772359709 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12970132 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12970132 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12970132 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 90 90 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 42794 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31096 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31096 (F2) Unknown 0 0 22420	69.5% Good	Read 479 Write 179 Mixed 207 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 14.7 105% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 50 80% 153 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 28,461 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 19.7 MC Mixed 15.6 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 17.1 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 76%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) - $149

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	581x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	264x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	214x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	54x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	44x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	26x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $569

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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