MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	47.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '17 at 19:31
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	10%

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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 (70^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 86.8 1-Core 127 2-Core 248 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 639 65% 528 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 143 Parallax 129 119% 139 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 135 Splatting 108 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intenso Sata III 240GB 2,859 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 94GB free Firmware: P0614D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^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 34 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 61 (A3) Unknown 100 100 18 (A4) Unknown 100 100 812 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9979 (F2) Unknown 100 100 19804 (F5) Unknown 100 100 12992	83.3% Excellent	Read 505 Write 322 Mixed 393 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 25.8 114% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 63.5 87% 157 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 102%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 14003655 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -33105607910476 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1353 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 73 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 55 38658310176 (C2) HDA temperature 32 55 38658310176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14003655 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14003655 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14003655 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 30064771073 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13839 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8110 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8110 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8715	47.2% Average	Read 237 Write 105 Mixed 162 37% 168 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 13.1 95% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 61.8 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 28.9 39% 68.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 73%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 461GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 156 155 7166 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3605 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13257 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3469 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 35 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3605 (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	44.7% Average	Read 80.7 Write 74.9 Mixed 76.2 58% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.3 89% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 51%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$30 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 702GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896567475 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3787 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 14701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3130 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3843 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3843 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 188979019808 (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 200 200 0	92% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 157 Mixed 158 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.16 77% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 107%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 169GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6290 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3223 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9711 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2807 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 61 470941722 (C2) HDA temperature 74 59 504496154 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1688685 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	31.8% Below average	Read 59.9 Write 50.6 Mixed 36.8 36% 49.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.23 63% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMX8GX3M2A1600C11 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1600C11 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 0215 CMX8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.7% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 15.4 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 18.1 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 54%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) - $152

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	566x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	329x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	194x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	95x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	78x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	49x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	42x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	32x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	30x

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Total price: $800

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