MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816)

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	128% 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	97.2% 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 (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7816
Motherboard	MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150509
Uptime	23.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 07 '17 at 17:12
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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-$62 128,482 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 114 2-Core 224 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 434 58% 433 Pts	64-Core 432 27% 432 Pts
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 203 Parallax 206 142% 194 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 188 Splatting 130 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370 512GB-$173 1,585 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 109GB free Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^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 1777 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4334 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 43 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 7642 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 7 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 16253 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 61699 (F2) Unknown 100 100 205177 (F5) Unknown 100 100 122272	91.6% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 417 Mixed 460 102% 460 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 80.1 4K Mixed 30.2 111% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 294 DQ Mixed 73.8 110% 204 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 105%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3905 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2614 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15230061251	97.2% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 401 Mixed 416 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 90.9 4K Mixed 31.3 130% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 99.3 131% 238 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 124%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 176 8041 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3878 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7943 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3867 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 173 173 83933 (C2) HDA temperature 125 97 27 (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	82.7% Excellent	Read 142 Write 146 Mixed 140 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.26 96% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 87%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 400GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 70 8986 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9090 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10957 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8659 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 58 197569413145 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 88392	82.1% Excellent	Read 125 Write 162 Mixed 115 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.57 129% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial ST102464BA160B.16F 2x8GB 1,015 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	60.8% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 18.2 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 21 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 61%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87-G43 (MS-7816) - $217

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	400x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	206x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	142x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	92x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	91x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	43x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	34x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	32x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	27x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $475

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 $15	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