MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 103% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 92.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% 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	81% 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.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1440 x 1024 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 14:16
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 128 2-Core 256 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 503 67% 504 Pts	64-Core 508 31% 508 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 150 Parallax 141 118% 146 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 138 Splatting 109 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intenso Sata III 240GB 2,859 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0614D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 100 100 479 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 601 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 61 (A3) Unknown 100 100 18 (A4) Unknown 100 100 14339 (A5) Unknown 100 100 83 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 94720 (F2) Unknown 100 100 123694 (F5) Unknown 100 100 229424	81% Excellent	Read 495 Write 322 Mixed 395 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 17 4K Write 89.4 4K Mixed 26.2 107% 44.2 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 244 DQ Mixed 62.3 87% 157 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 102%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 50GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3285674 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -17360257801079 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1853 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 88 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 21 55 38658310165 (C2) HDA temperature 21 55 38658310165 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3285674 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3285674 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3285674 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 30064771073 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14463 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8414 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8414 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12205	55.5% Above average	Read 441 Write 114 Mixed 155 51% 237 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 12.6 92% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 76.4 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 24.4 38% 71.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 73%
Hitachi HDN726040ALE614 4TB 4,649 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 1.5TB free Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 108 (03) Spinup time 128 128 34387067294 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 47 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 80 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 154619609120 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	74.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 124 Mixed 116 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.51 124% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 113%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 562GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 157 5050 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14100 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3957 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 924 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3957 (C2) HDA temperature 114 87 33 (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	57.6% Above average	Read 109 Write 91 Mixed 94.2 74% 98.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.41 121% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 5,533 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	MC Read 33.1 MC Write 33.9 MC Mixed 28.6 91% 31.9 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 26.7 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 47.8 84% 47.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 87%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) - $152

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	566x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	329x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	194x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	95x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	78x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	49x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	42x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	32x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	30x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $800

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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