MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 35% Sail boat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 28% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	35.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	67% 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.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 04 '18 at 16:11
Run Duration	277 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670K-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 124 2-Core 249 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 483 61% 465 Pts	64-Core 485 30% 485 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% EVGA(3842 2774) 2GB CLim: 1267 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	35.5% Below average	Lighting 42.6 Reflection 39.5 Parallax 45.3 35% 42.5 fps	MRender 52.4 Gravity 49.4 Splatting 37.2 37% 46.3 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST6000AS0002-1N917X 6TB 425 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 798GB free Firmware: AR13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 126899576 (03) Spinup time 94 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3271 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4388089370 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2837 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 21475164165 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 488439837 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 703 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13642 (C2) HDA temperature 29 44 51539607581 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 126899576 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 82502026794609 (F1) Unknown 100 253 33040798356 (F2) Unknown 100 253 63616970299	10.2% Very poor	Read 79.7 Write 71.6 Mixed 76.8 17% 76 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 12.3 4K Mixed 0.48 9% 4.65 MB/s	DQ Read 3.03 DQ Write 4.48 DQ Mixed 0.77 1% 2.76 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 10.2% Great: 19%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16972 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5778 (B1) Unknown 81 81 224 (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 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 81 (EB) Unknown 99 99 307 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37479656543	67% Good	Read 507 Write 128 Mixed 160 57% 265 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 78.8 4K Mixed 10.7 103% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 28.1 72% 158 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 73%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 192 146 7375 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8363 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20433 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5442 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 973 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 167 167 101978 (C2) HDA temperature 122 102 30 (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 200 190 231 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.9% Good	Read 111 Write 118 Mixed 115 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.23 90% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 83%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 967GB free Firmware: 12.01D04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 252 217 6366 (04) Start/Stop count 67 67 33613 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19409 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2218 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 132 132 206335 (C2) HDA temperature 119 94 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (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	56.4% Above average	Read 99.9 Write 96.7 Mixed 88.2 71% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.16 60% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda Desktop 5TB-$124 3,845 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 916GB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 100 114259152 (03) Spinup time 95 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3429 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 8624646741 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9248 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2970 (B7) Unknown 91 91 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 471597084 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 404 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30018 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 51539607580 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 116 100 114259152 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 41047002453745 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23114146205 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24816005078
Poor: 34% Great: 90%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 583GB 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 205 169 6708 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3833 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9908 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3345 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 349 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30866 (C2) HDA temperature 122 102 30 (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% Excellent	Read 139 Write 143 Mixed 123 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.27 91% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 451GB free Firmware: SC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 195975296 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6365 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 58 274937115507 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15372 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 5019 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 107375820827 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 71 57 505217053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40058 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 42949672989 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 26285199860442 (F1) Unknown 100 253 48611466241 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48017376129
Poor: 56% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 20,667 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	63.8% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 23.2 MC Mixed 20.1 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 20.6 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 77%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 44%

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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	146x
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