MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815)

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.4% 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	109% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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-7815
Motherboard	MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815) (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130426
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 06:50
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Memory 93.2 1-Core 140 2-Core 276 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 707 75% 600 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3308) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2274 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 123 Parallax 107 99% 117 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 108 Splatting 109 89% 109 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3233 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1072 (B1) Unknown 98 98 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 58 52 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21115997082	109% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 407 Mixed 415 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 36.1 172% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 68.5 110% 209 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 46GB free Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 11904866 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 -77283641509828 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2481 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 26 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 42 73017196580 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11904866 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11904866 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11904866 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12518 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13007 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13007 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19820	69.2% Good	Read 473 Write 128 Mixed 203 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 15.1 127% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 48.8 62% 110 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 81%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 16,705 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4TB free Firmware: D781 Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	80% Very good	Read 157 Write 120 Mixed 101 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.22 4K Write 7.49 4K Mixed 0.73 271% 3.15 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 15322336 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 451 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1379147 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1309 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 451 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 61 57 655687719 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 69442 (C2) HDA temperature 39 43 68719476775 (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 9796820402850 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3616313472 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1919514438	89% Excellent	Read 173 Write 137 Mixed 145 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.23 79% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 114%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 832GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 8250 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1818 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1065 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 72 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11453 (C2) HDA temperature 115 110 37 (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	60.6% Good	Read 114 Write 97.5 Mixed 99 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.26 90% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 773GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124170008 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2414 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17211551 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1605 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 64 59 34965028900 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 30 30 140471 (C2) HDA temperature 36 41 -140737488355292 (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 -35094177773144 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14767844268 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15108871249	75.1% Very good	Read 139 Write 123 Mixed 126 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 112%

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 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 20.8 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17.1 56% 19.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 18.1 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 62%

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Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER MAX (MS-7815) - $180

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	113x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	38x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	21x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	14x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	12x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	10x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $190Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	9x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	9x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	8x
HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GBKingstonBench 70%, 5,910 samples	6x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	6x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $580

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