MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	61.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161027
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '17 at 10:07
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 123 2-Core 245 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 764 73% 602 Pts	64-Core 780 48% 780 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 149 Parallax 141 116% 144 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 137 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M5 Pro 128GB-$130 4,476 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 65GB free Firmware: 1.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^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 1704 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1810 (B1) Unknown 100 100 72157 (B2) Unknown 100 100 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 281 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 12 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 12 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1658 (E8) Unknown 97 97 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 100019 (F2) Unknown 100 100 259464	97.3% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 309 Mixed 378 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 38.6 150% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 88.6 117% 212 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 98%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 18901018 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 117261197124226 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1684 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 223 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 42 67 47249031210 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18901018 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18901018 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18901018 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9078 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9821 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9821 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11107	61.7% Good	Read 276 Write 131 Mixed 176 43% 194 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 14.6 126% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 39.4 61% 117 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 80%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 455GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 134 134 21492793634 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1820 (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 99 99 8854 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1660 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1820 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1820 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 223339020323 (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	64.4% Good	Read 123 Write 101 Mixed 110 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.17 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.15 53% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 92,468 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.3% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 23.5 68% 24 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 114%

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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	3,281x
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	743x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	588x

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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $968

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