MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	41.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	96.1% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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-G55 (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130722
Uptime	7.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 08 '17 at 03:28
Run Duration	384 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th 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-$127 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 119 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 466 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 473 29% 473 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Sapphire(174B 3000) 3GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	41.2% Average	Lighting 53.8 Reflection 35.8 Parallax 72.5 44% 54 fps	MRender 34 Gravity 52.3 Splatting 44.5 36% 43.6 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8379 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1617 (B1) Unknown 95 95 50 (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 67 55 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 116 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23589642971	96.1% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 352 Mixed 352 89% 404 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 23.2 142% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 22.9 91% 204 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 118%
WD WD10JPLX-00MBPT0 1TB 11,708 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 925GB free Firmware: 01.01H01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 119 119 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 234 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1396 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 234 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2690 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 188979675164 (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 200 200 736 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	76.9% Very good	Read 134 Write 134 Mixed 116 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.2 81% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 75%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 377GB free Firmware: 0006HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 76 206117589 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3262 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 21640041309 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8267 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3245 (B7) Unknown 100 253 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 94 12885099123 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 555155487 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 131 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 73678 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 55834574879 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 36 206117589 (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 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	50.1% Above average	Read 89.7 Write 85 Mixed 84.1 65% 86.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.47 95% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 58%
WD Black 2.5" 750GB (2013)-$65 16,938 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 42GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 194 171 1266 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3671 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7799 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1586 (BF) G-sense error rate 91 91 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30987 (C2) HDA temperature 118 99 29 (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	51.6% Above average	Read 85 Write 94.7 Mixed 94.8 69% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.2 74% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 71%
Patriot Memory 8GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 0GB free, PID 4100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	4.45% Terrible	Read 15 Write 4.35 Mixed 5.65 9% 8.33 MB/s	4K Read 5.32 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.01 21% 1.79 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.45% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 1600G 2OZ 2x4GB 365 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	59.8% Above average	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 18.2 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.2 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 63%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-G55 (MS-7821) - $100

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	58x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	45x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	17x

SSD
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	13x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	10x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x

RAM
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	10x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	9x
99U5584-010.A00LF 99U5584-010.A00LF 9905584-014.A00LF 99U5584-005.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 58%, 11 samples	9x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $439

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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