MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 97.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	117% 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	118% 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 17 '17 at 20:12
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 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)	97.6% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 139 2-Core 273 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 748 80% 638 Pts	64-Core 773 48% 773 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 159 Parallax 151 130% 156 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 151 Splatting 115 105% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 351GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1327 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 394 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 56 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3263426814	121% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 425 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 53.2 197% 68.5 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 130 152% 265 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 134%
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 351GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 602 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 262 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 74 33 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3823599196	93.8% Outstanding	Read 490 Write 273 Mixed 280 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 68.9 4K Mixed 35.3 150% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 87.8 115% 212 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 123%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1357 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 423 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 66 56 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3495709593	118% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 415 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 48.8 189% 66.3 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 114 143% 256 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 154008728 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2496 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23686703 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15191 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 8590065670 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 55 437714970 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 186 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3645 (C2) HDA temperature 26 45 51539607578 (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 110058536968802 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19670256113 (F2) Unknown 100 253 107236550203	96.4% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 168 Mixed 163 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.34 103% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 146GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 100 242880224 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 136 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 477994 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 107 (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 75 56 420937753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 760 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 85899345945 (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 -98419175587599 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3704970017 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5727063978	60.4% Good	Read 105 Write 106 Mixed 102 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.4% 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 (84^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 28.9 102% 35.8 GB/s	SC Read 23 SC Write 43.5 SC Mixed 31.5 93% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 48.7 82% 48.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) - $175

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,277x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	903x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	330x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	875x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	742x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	587x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	244x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	159x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	520x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	215x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	132x

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Total price: $968

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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