MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 33% Sail boat	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 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 26.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very poor.
Graphics	5.08% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	44% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140721
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 21 '16 at 09:15
Run Duration	294 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing below expectations (28^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 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	26.4% Poor	Memory 46.8 1-Core 59.6 2-Core 30.4 33% 45.6 Pts	4-Core 34.3 8-Core 79.3 6% 56.8 Pts	64-Core 92 6% 92 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 26.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3969) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 375.57 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	5.08% Terrible	Lighting 4.1 Reflection 18.3 Parallax 3.06 3% 8.5 fps	MRender 15.2 Gravity 7.23 Splatting 9.35 8% 10.6 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 5.08% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16863 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1284 (B1) Unknown 80 80 237 (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 60 57 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 146 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34040358919	44% Average	Read 491 Write 126 Mixed 148 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 9.17 4K Write 39.1 4K Mixed 8.5 46% 18.9 MB/s	DQ Read 21.1 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 8.47 26% 51.7 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 73%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3.5TB free Firmware: SC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 46065344 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 259 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 48 64434014614 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5063 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 216 (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 67 61 571867169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 259 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 73014444065 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	93.6% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 157 Mixed 146 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.15 69% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 100%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 176 5650 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2287 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17397 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1255 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 114 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 407393 (C2) HDA temperature 113 107 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	68.5% Good	Read 113 Write 126 Mixed 111 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 0.15 43% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 84%
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB 3,701 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 354GB free, PID 5021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	9.74% Terrible	Read 39 Write 15.6 Mixed 4.04 19% 19.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.19 4K Mixed 0.15 13% 0.27 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.74% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 2x8GB 7,244 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	17.6% Very poor	MC Read 4.7 MC Write 6.8 MC Mixed 6.9 18% 6.13 GB/s	SC Read 2.1 SC Write 5.9 SC Mixed 5.1 12% 4.37 GB/s	Latency 173 23% 173 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 68%

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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 $127Bench 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: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $597

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