MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	130% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150813
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	May 30 '18 at 23:53
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 88.6 1-Core 106 2-Core 184 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 514 52% 422 Pts	64-Core 538 33% 538 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 206 Parallax 181 146% 189 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 181 Splatting 128 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 98 243046992 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 315 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 593188701 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24115 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 187 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 623050789 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7304 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 51539607589 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -115848152850943 (F1) Unknown 100 253 81333862917 (F2) Unknown 100 253 929149878113	98% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 155 Mixed 153 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.16 66% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 721GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 111 103 7416 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2061 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 42150 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1164 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 123 123 231718 (C2) HDA temperature 116 93 31 (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	67.8% Good	Read 131 Write 105 Mixed 103 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.17 65% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 0420 DDR3 1600 0420 0420 DDR3 1600 16GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.1% Above average	MC Read 17 MC Write 18 MC Mixed 15.3 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 17.2 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 60%

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Typical Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) Builds (Compare 1,331 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	570x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	332x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	196x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	79x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	49x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	43x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	32x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	31x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $800

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16