MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 81.6%, 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	69% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 19 '18 at 14:19
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 227 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 585 62% 493 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 148 Parallax 128 118% 140 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 140 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 136GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13599 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1797 (B1) Unknown 99 99 22 (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 73 65 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6436094131	97.7% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 473 Mixed 508 110% 493 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 86.4 4K Mixed 24.5 116% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 77.2 125% 240 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 116%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 23893097 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 48 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 -75591424394658 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1798 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 666 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 3707 (BD) vendor-specific 26 34 34361966618 (C2) HDA temperature 26 34 34361966618 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23893097 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 48 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23893097 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23893097 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33043 (EA) Unknown 0 0 17743 (F1) Unknown 0 0 17743 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7476	69% Good	Read 406 Write 189 Mixed 214 59% 270 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 87.4 4K Mixed 16.3 113% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 53.9 79% 149 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 267GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113278464 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 81384432 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15363 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2018 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 53 487915549 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 85927 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 47244640285 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 190 534 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 8546984925217 (F1) Unknown 100 253 86656758689577 (F2) Unknown 100 253 127790348417143	66.6% Good	Read 124 Write 109 Mixed 137 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.36 91% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 210GB free Firmware: SD15 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 176517400 (03) Spinup time 94 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8012 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4521900317 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20260 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3601 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 11 (BD) vendor-specific 6 6 94 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 521404447 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 34359738399 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 19 176517400 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 18	41.7% Average	Read 71.5 Write 73.6 Mixed 70 54% 71.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.44 98% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 23,732 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.8% Poor	MC Read 9.5 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 7.9 25% 8.83 GB/s	SC Read 8.8 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.6 27% 9.43 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 61%

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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	1,364x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,196x
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	145x
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 $273	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 $186	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