MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	97.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	2.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, , 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130818
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 16:55
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$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 way below expectations (11^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 82.2 1-Core 109 2-Core 199 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 423 48% 377 Pts	64-Core 537 33% 537 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 760-$209 161,132 User benchmarks, average bench 26% EVGA(3842 2765) 2GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 24% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 186GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19113 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 449 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 59 42 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 123 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21664881401	98% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 396 Mixed 413 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 31.6 138% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 122 133% 225 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 133%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 32975 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 669 (E8) Unknown 100 100 72827495824 (E9) Unknown 97 0 97	97.4% Outstanding	Read 480 Write 410 Mixed 402 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 92.7 4K Mixed 32.2 136% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 293 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 121 132% 221 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 106%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 44GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 2907713 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 -110801566265447 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 860 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 111 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2907713 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2907713 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2907713 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5669 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5519 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5519 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4610	50.4% Above average	Read 205 Write 106 Mixed 135 33% 149 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 88.7 4K Mixed 14.5 106% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 37.3 50% 90.8 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 61%
Seagate ST1000LM048-2E7172 1TB 89,596 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 609GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 69 82366386 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 28 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 451132 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -99716255711035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (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 63 51 824180773 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 600 (C2) HDA temperature 37 49 85899345957 (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 91542932947084 (F1) Unknown 100 253 695420315 (F2) Unknown 100 253 119437870 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	63.9% Good	Read 114 Write 107 Mixed 67.1 71% 96.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 5.39 4K Mixed 0.3 176% 2.24 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 28,220 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.3% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 15.2 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 8.4 27% 9.53 GB/s	Latency 76.5 52% 76.5 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 61%

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Typical Z87-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) Builds (Compare 4,010 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 $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