MSI Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

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System	MSI MS-7A62
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161130
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 01 '17 at 19:42
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	74% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 106 2-Core 203 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 410 52% 393 Pts	64-Core 356 22% 356 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 101 91% 109 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 100 Splatting 101 82% 99.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 8 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (64) Unknown 100 100 129104 (65) Unknown 100 100 696208 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 76 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 709 (B7) Unknown 95 95 32 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 100 141735034908 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 8 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (E9) Unknown 100 100 140 (EA) Unknown 100 100 72 (F1) Unknown 100 100 121 (F2) Unknown 100 100 84 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 8	58.8% Above average	Read 482 Write 193 Mixed 222 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 8.36 71% 26.4 MB/s	DQ Read 219 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 26.3 58% 123 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 82%
Seagate ST2000LM007-1R8174 2TB 71,657 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 635GB free Firmware: SBK2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 187068155 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 13062714741 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -22183506079221 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 303 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 274 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 890175522 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 261 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 63719 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 38654705698 (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 -71541270245694 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21495462645 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43635064000	35.5% Below average	Read 65.6 Write 57.5 Mixed 52.3 44% 58.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.38 104% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x4GB-$97 3,926 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66% Good	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 23.2 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 19.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 107%

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Gaming 89%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,043x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	459x
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 $94Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	79x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	58x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,073

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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