MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821)

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 47% Yacht	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 40.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	14.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	50.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (94%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7821
Motherboard	MSI Z97-G45 GAMING (MS-7821) (all builds)
Memory	19.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141110
Uptime	5.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 04:45
Run Duration	349 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	94%

PC Performing below expectations (27^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 1.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	40.4% Average	Memory 66.2 1-Core 22.3 2-Core 45.4 32% 44.6 Pts	4-Core 82.1 8-Core 130 13% 106 Pts	64-Core 73.4 4% 73.4 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 3968) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.93 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	14.8% Very poor	Lighting 17.8 Reflection 16.5 Parallax 16.5 14% 16.9 fps	MRender 19.6 Gravity 15.6 Splatting 20.8 16% 18.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LX 128GB-$144 1,867 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0530C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^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 2938 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 805 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 134 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 185310 (A5) Unknown 100 100 230 (A6) Unknown 100 100 128 (A7) Unknown 100 100 182 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 96 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 644 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 459604 (F2) Unknown 100 100 313441	50.6% Above average	Read 491 Write 146 Mixed 221 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 14.3 4K Write 37.2 4K Mixed 15.2 61% 22.3 MB/s	DQ Read 85.7 DQ Write 69.9 DQ Mixed 43.5 42% 66.3 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 84%
Corsair Force LX 128GB-$144 1,867 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 4GB free Firmware: N0530C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^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 100 100 106 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 805 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 195 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 49 (A3) Unknown 100 100 21 (A4) Unknown 100 100 31509 (A5) Unknown 100 100 89 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 87902 (F2) Unknown 100 100 55825	56.5% Above average	Read 492 Write 146 Mixed 223 62% 287 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 36.8 4K Mixed 21.8 78% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 90.1 DQ Write 87.9 DQ Mixed 48.2 47% 75.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 433GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234058464 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 11263 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4312223 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 604 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 65 571998242 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27737 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 30064771106 (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 121951301404939 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3873805127 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3849187531	95.9% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 161 Mixed 169 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.2 95% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 112%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 57GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 4191 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8231 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16075 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 497 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 182 182 55491 (C2) HDA temperature 114 110 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	40.3% Average	Read 71.3 Write 68.7 Mixed 70.6 53% 70.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.28 106% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 84%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 2TB 2,127 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 308GB free, PID 5071 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	14% Very poor	Read 34.5 Write 35.5 Mixed 6.47 30% 25.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.18 20% 0.31 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 18%
Ext Hard Disk 2TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 70GB free, PID 0207 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	19.1% Very poor	Read 35.6 Write 36.2 Mixed 10.6 33% 27.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 23%
Generic- USB3.0 CRW-SD 32GB 109 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 30GB free, PID 0301 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 87.6 Write 42.8 Mixed 56.2 72% 62.2 MB/s	4K Read 3.72 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.69 67% 1.76 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600 CL10 Series 1302 PSD38G16002 1302 1600 CL10 Series 1302 PSD38G16002 32GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	38% Below average	MC Read 14.3 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 13.2 41% 14.4 GB/s	SC Read 4.1 SC Write 6 SC Mixed 8.2 17% 6.1 GB/s	Latency 111 36% 111 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 62%

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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	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 $129Bench 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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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 $184	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) $35	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