MSI Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	111% 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	80.1% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A62
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161130
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '17 at 16:37
Run Duration	225 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 799 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 155 Parallax 133 119% 144 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 145 Splatting 118 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 47GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 133 100 133 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 969 (A6) Unknown 100 100 19 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 71 (A9) Unknown 100 100 49 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 51 (AE) Unknown 100 100 144 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 100 240518168602 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12419 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2968 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4258	83.9% Excellent	Read 496 Write 365 Mixed 419 95% 427 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 4.2 113% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 195 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 4.12 72% 168 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 86%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 223 100 1759 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 998 (A6) Unknown 100 100 105 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 157 (A9) Unknown 100 100 50 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 141 (AE) Unknown 100 100 149 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 100 223338299420 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 30652 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13092 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11037	80.1% Excellent	Read 509 Write 358 Mixed 408 94% 425 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 4.17 113% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 293 DQ Mixed 4.1 50% 109 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 86%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 14GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 -66692252145398 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3870 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1222 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 30 128850985088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 90 90 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23006 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19671 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19671 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24747	41.8% Average	Read 196 Write 62.2 Mixed 89.2 25% 116 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 12.4 96% 36.1 MB/s	DQ Read 71.9 DQ Write 53.4 DQ Mixed 21 27% 48.7 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 51%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 133 133 21502493110 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 172 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 161 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 173 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 173 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 197569282083 (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	95.4% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 163 Mixed 154 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.21 90% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 435GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 3688728 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1830 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 50797128 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7236 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1496 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 76 53 404226072 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3034 (C2) HDA temperature 24 47 42949672984 (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 -16896401335282 (F1) Unknown 100 253 134944513616 (F2) Unknown 100 253 407870579646	90.7% Outstanding	Read 157 Write 160 Mixed 146 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.21 76% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 356GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 106014288 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2341 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 59428430 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10726 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2166 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 251 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 26881 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 47244640284 (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 115903987459233 (F1) Unknown 100 253 119624556416 (F2) Unknown 100 253 739587876712	73.2% Very good	Read 130 Write 125 Mixed 122 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.13 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 28.2 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 37.4 SC Mixed 30.9 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) - $300

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,043x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	458x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	171x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	284x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	278x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	121x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	86x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	153x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	79x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	58x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,085

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) $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