MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.2% 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	117% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 20 '17 at 11:23
Run Duration	511 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$132 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 96.9 1-Core 118 2-Core 236 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 611 64% 511 Pts	64-Core 604 37% 604 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1612 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 118 Parallax 107 90% 112 fps	MRender 99 Gravity 101 Splatting 90.7 79% 96.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5546 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 202 (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 67 57 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 122 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14460383093	117% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 47.9 183% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 117 147% 262 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$24 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 470GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 48917696 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2132 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 73766635 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 815 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 76 63 404095000 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 20799 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 47244640280 (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 -50006304218874 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25409748328 (F2) Unknown 100 253 654402147257	56.2% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 101 Mixed 94.7 73% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.17 90% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 431GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 164536848 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 195 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18009424 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5784 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 195 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 75 64 421003289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 26783 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 60129542169 (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 -61761629711331 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17837711936 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21578343711	72.8% Very good	Read 137 Write 117 Mixed 128 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.17 64% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$49 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 187GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80099072 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1985 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9137234088 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 36933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1925 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 93 93 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770197008 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 60550545433 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1565 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71344 (C2) HDA temperature 25 41 -140737488355303 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 768 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 27706834061638 (F1) Unknown 100 253 78073197712 (F2) Unknown 100 253 143868500944	86% Excellent	Read 182 Write 118 Mixed 136 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.34 86% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 114%
MP350 8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 2% 2GB free, PID 1101 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	1.67% Terrible	Read 4.14 Write 1.48 Mixed 2.17 3% 2.6 MB/s	4K Read 3.05 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.006 12% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 1.67% Great: 3%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 19,522 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	MC Read 32.3 MC Write 32.6 MC Mixed 26.9 87% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 26.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	579x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	338x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	116x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	198x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	97x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	80x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	61x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	56x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	43x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	33x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	32x

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