MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 103% UFO	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	131% 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	70.5% 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	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 03:09
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	ISL-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 81.9 1-Core 122 2-Core 228 81% 144 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 612 65% 518 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 206 Parallax 182 150% 191 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 177 Splatting 123 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 114GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1078 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 159 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 62 163209871390 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4398758109 (F7) Unknown 100 100 137532603 (F8) Unknown 100 100 62323794 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1936 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	86.6% Excellent	Read 479 Write 338 Mixed 338 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 26.1 114% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 41.2 95% 199 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 99%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17878033 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -29094108456806 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1197 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 118 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 37 73016868891 (C2) HDA temperature 27 37 73016868891 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17878033 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17878033 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17878033 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14701 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10362 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10362 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11456	70.5% Very good	Read 471 Write 187 Mixed 205 63% 288 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 19.2 113% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 11.9 51% 111 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 87%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 240GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 160 4891 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4426 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 7 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17939 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3540 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 456 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4426 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 33 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 111 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48.4% Average	Read 78.9 Write 89.7 Mixed 76.7 62% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.41 104% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5458-005.A01LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 16GB 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	48.8% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 15 48% 16.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 17.6 SC Mixed 15.8 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 77.2 52% 77.2 ns

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Typical Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) Builds (Compare 4,009 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 56%

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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	1,366x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1,199x
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 $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $42	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