MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 33% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 77.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	50.2% 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)
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	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '18 at 20:25
Run Duration	278 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (57^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 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	77.5% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 189 75% 127 Pts	4-Core 337 8-Core 491 52% 414 Pts	64-Core 536 33% 536 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	50.2% Above average	Lighting 62.9 Reflection 62.5 Parallax 58.6 51% 61.3 fps	MRender 69.3 Gravity 60 Splatting 51.1 48% 60.1 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 54%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% MSI(1462 7821) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4835 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.87% Terrible	Lighting 3.97 Reflection 6.69 Parallax 6.22 3% 5.63 fps	MRender 7.33 Gravity 2.47 Splatting 8.22 5% 6.01 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.87% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2CT180A3 525GB 341GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 2420 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 248 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 26 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 55 193274707994 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12852266632 (F7) Unknown 100 100 402594287 (F8) Unknown 100 100 86162975 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1931 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0

Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 118GB free Firmware: 300i 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 0 0 93398359734063 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1988 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1427 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 706633 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 706633 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1192135 (F9) Unknown 100 100 21288
Poor: 51% Great: 83%
Crucial_CT525MX300SSD1 240GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 35GB free Firmware: MU01.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 100 100 614 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 667 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 31 (A3) Unknown 100 100 306 (94) Unknown 100 100 48237 (95) Unknown 100 100 694 (96) Unknown 100 100 590 (97) Unknown 100 100 680 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16235 (A5) Unknown 100 100 39 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36426190356505 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 63736 (F2) Unknown 100 100 111545 (F5) Unknown 100 100 95887 (F6) Unknown 100 100 96474 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	80.5% Excellent	Read 465 Write 311 Mixed 341 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 56.1 4K Mixed 28 109% 37.7 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 55.2 85% 162 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 785GB free Firmware: CC43 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 81 63 151863300 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 663 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 184549363 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8683 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 660 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 85 85 15 (BE) vendor-specific 64 42 605224996 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 783 (C2) HDA temperature 36 16 68719476772 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 151863300 (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 4483945865685 (F1) Unknown 100 253 117021176796 (F2) Unknown 100 253 116886893601
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 320GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 92127260 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11472 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 220698500 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27412 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4271 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 55840211055 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 46 588513315 (C2) HDA temperature 35 54 68719476771 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 35 92127260 (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 100661148555582 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2685957569 (F2) Unknown 100 253 903532750	46.7% Average	Read 86.5 Write 76 Mixed 84 62% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.54 109% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 65%
WD Elements 500GB 10,869 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 447GB free, PID 10a2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 10% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 16,567 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.4% Below average	MC Read 10.8 MC Write 10.8 MC Mixed 9.2 29% 10.3 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 10.4 SC Mixed 9 27% 9.3 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 62%

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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	1,367x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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