MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.3% 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	88% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.8 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150519
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 30 '17 at 21:01
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 94.1 1-Core 121 2-Core 241 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 627 68% 542 Pts	64-Core 627 39% 627 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1559 MHz, MLim: 1931 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 104 91% 111 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 101 Splatting 92.8 79% 97.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel S3500 Series 480GB-$151 1,069 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 260GB free (System drive) Firmware: D2010370 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5066 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2416 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 76 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4305650312 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 82 302841874 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 76 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 29 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 459852 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 1035 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 39 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 275014 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 459852 (F2) Unknown 100 100 327255	88% Excellent	Read 477 Write 456 Mixed 461 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 21.9 130% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 32.7 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 22.1 30% 52 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 98%
Mushkin Chronos 120GB-$70 862 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 11GB free Firmware: 507ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3831347 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 97607426780125 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3784 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 225 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 56 17183539227 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3831347 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3831347 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3831347 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8417 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7604 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7604 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9766	69.1% Good	Read 504 Write 133 Mixed 211 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 20.9 129% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 31.2 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 14.8 28% 52.9 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 84%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 138 9808 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5873 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4546 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 301 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 143 143 173757 (C2) HDA temperature 125 114 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	69.4% Good	Read 132 Write 110 Mixed 113 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 83%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$30 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 299GB free Firmware: ST6OA3AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 786446 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 122 122 38685376981 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7752 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 47554 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 899 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 11076 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 11076 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 210454380573 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 14 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	44.3% Average	Read 76 Write 78.1 Mixed 79.3 59% 77.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.47 113% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT4G3D1869DT1TX0. 4x4GB 751 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1800 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 23.5 MC Mixed 17.6 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 22 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 59.6 67% 59.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 77%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) - $149

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	582x
Core i5-4670KIntel $127Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	264x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	214x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	54x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	44x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	29x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	26x

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Total price: $569

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 $179	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