MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818)

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	18.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7818
Motherboard	MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818) (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150511
Uptime	5.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 01:10
Run Duration	576 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 251 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 686 70% 567 Pts	64-Core 673 42% 673 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6170) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	18.9% Very poor	Lighting 21 Reflection 2.5 Parallax 38.8 17% 20.8 fps	MRender 2.05 Gravity 44.7 Splatting 31.6 22% 26.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 113GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12644 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 480 (B1) Unknown 96 96 39 (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 64 53 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 944 (EB) Unknown 99 99 249 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22585508354
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 47GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16038 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 578 (B1) Unknown 98 98 15 (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 58 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 95 95 4429 (EB) Unknown 99 99 326 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3950945445	71.1% Very good	Read 501 Write 129 Mixed 125 54% 252 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 10.7 118% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 27.8 73% 161 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 73%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 8GB free Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12309 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 472 (B1) Unknown 98 98 16 (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 59 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1292 (EB) Unknown 99 99 231 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4160340393	71% Very good	Read 503 Write 134 Mixed 169 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 10.4 116% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 26.7 73% 160 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 73%
JMicron 1TB 862 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 911GB free Firmware: 9122 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	41.5% Average	Read 51.9 Write 92.1 Mixed 94.2 60% 79.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 83%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 464GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 64 (03) Spinup time 173 171 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 804 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12511 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 383 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 641 (C2) HDA temperature 114 105 29 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	91.1% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 150 Mixed 140 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.3 105% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 197GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 43669474 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1009 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 88 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 251295835 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 43147 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1010 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065671 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 504823836 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 18 43669474 (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 -58067957797970 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1261237547 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2636564948	63.7% Good	Read 110 Write 112 Mixed 101 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.56 110% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 70%
FNK TECH USB CARD READER 2GB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 2GB free, PID 0300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	1.21% Terrible	Read 5.85 Write 1.26 Mixed 2.75 3% 3.29 MB/s	4K Read 0.13 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.01 2% 0.05 MB/s
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.21% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,755 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1400 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	67.5% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 21.3 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 21.9 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 53 75% 53 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 73%

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Motherboard: MSI Z87 MPOWER (MS-7818) - $252

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	203x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	60x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	49x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	33x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x

RAM
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	18x
1600 CL9 Series 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 7,092 samples	10x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	10x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $47	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16