MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 49% Yacht	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 34.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	23.9% 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)
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU. CPU throttled at 5% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150519
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '17 at 22:34
Run Duration	277 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	38%
CPU Throttled	5%

PC Performing below expectations (24^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 Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	34.9% Below average	Memory 56.4 1-Core 23 2-Core 40.4 29% 39.9 Pts	4-Core 74.7 8-Core 109 11% 91.9 Pts	64-Core 123 8% 123 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% PwrHis(1787 3001) 3GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	23.9% Poor	Lighting 24.1 Reflection 32.2 Parallax 59.9 20% 38.7 fps	MRender 30.7 Gravity 46.9 Splatting 39.9 32% 39.2 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 23.9% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 954GB free Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 1,173 Write 1,556 Mixed 1,436 312% 1,388 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 75.4 4K Mixed 36.3 140% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 86.5 DQ Write 74.9 DQ Mixed 40.1 41% 67.2 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 363%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 232GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3552 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 460 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 62 61 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 36 36 64247 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7745385560
Poor: 72% Great: 126%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 99GB free Firmware: CXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5880 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 701 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 65 65 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2504185120	66.9% Good	Read 493 Write 401 Mixed 444 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 39.6 4K Mixed 14.7 69% 24.5 MB/s	DQ Read 59.6 DQ Write 34.6 DQ Mixed 17.9 21% 37.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$120 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4TB free Firmware: AR13 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 113 99 53721352 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 328 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 110777668 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 300 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 656736294 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2161 (C2) HDA temperature 38 45 81604378662 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 113 99 53721352 (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 74882754807023 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8262827217 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39481483892
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 176 5841 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 447 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 423 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 24544 (C2) HDA temperature 113 110 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.5% Excellent	Read 153 Write 145 Mixed 139 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.29 120% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 83%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$68 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 842GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 164 6458 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 932 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 906 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 554 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 168 168 97660 (C2) HDA temperature 114 111 36 (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	39.7% Below average	Read 69.3 Write 68.8 Mixed 71.6 53% 69.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.19 76% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,124 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.1% Average	MC Read 15.2 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.8 46% 16.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.7 SC Write 4.6 SC Mixed 7.3 17% 5.87 GB/s	Latency 139 29% 139 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 62%

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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	585x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	264x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	216x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 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 $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	54x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	31x
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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16