MSI Z97-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845)

Performance Results


Gaming 116% UFO	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	133% 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	88.3% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

System	MSI MS-7845
Motherboard	MSI Z97-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) (all builds)
Memory	21.4 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160217
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 14:08
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 130 2-Core 243 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 666 71% 564 Pts	64-Core 666 41% 666 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 87%

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: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 203 Parallax 174 154% 189 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 176 Splatting 124 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 188GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1572 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 323 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 72 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1136106506	106% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 410 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 44.5 175% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 45.1 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 111 98% 139 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 124%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 35GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3036 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 655 (B1) Unknown 98 98 6 (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 71 48 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2489102494	86.4% Excellent	Read 489 Write 272 Mixed 272 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 63.1 4K Mixed 27.4 130% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 65.3 100% 193 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 114%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9696 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2377 (B1) Unknown 91 91 109 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 68 51 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 132 (EB) Unknown 99 99 203 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43610146830	88.3% Excellent	Read 501 Write 346 Mixed 352 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 41.8 4K Write 72.7 4K Mixed 18.8 126% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 19.7 75% 169 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 118%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 1TB-$50 17,310 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 785GB free Firmware: CV26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163851320 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3594 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11357458 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6500 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1775 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420675609 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 146 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3679 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 55834574873 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	97.5% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 165 Mixed 168 128% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.25 99% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 119%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 154GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1660 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9167 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1010 (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 2568 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 822 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 55 193274314775 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 99 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 28 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1175	51.3% Above average	Read 84.2 Write 94.1 Mixed 115 74% 97.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.53 130% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 75GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 73 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9331 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1028 (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 2636 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 823 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 210454315033 (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 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 632 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1194	47.8% Average	Read 79.2 Write 86.9 Mixed 87.3 64% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.4 105% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9W 0215 CML16GX3M2A1600C10 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9W 0215 CML16GX3M2A1600C10 24GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	58.5% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 21.1 MC Mixed 16.6 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 20 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 58%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: MSI Z97-GD65 GAMING (MS-7845) - $224

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	180x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	43x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	60x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
BX100 500GBCrucial $49Bench 92%, 13,478 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x

RAM
2400C11 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 62%, 186 samples	11x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	10x
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	10x

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Total price: $852

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 $40	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