MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 98.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	113% 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	99.7% 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-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170207
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 23:47
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 159 2-Core 283 101% 180 Pts	4-Core 538 8-Core 883 87% 710 Pts	64-Core 883 55% 883 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.8% 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: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2701 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 159 Parallax 139 121% 149 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 146 Splatting 119 106% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 441GB free Firmware: X4140000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 215 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1114122 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 434 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 46 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 48 206160003114 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8589934594 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 68 (EA) Unknown 100 100 101 (F1) Unknown 253 253 96 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1031 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.9% Excellent	Read 501 Write 351 Mixed 307 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 87.3 4K Mixed 20.5 131% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 39.5 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 38.1 53% 93 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 104%
Crucial M550 512GB-$283 5,683 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 173GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 179 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6791 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 978 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 100 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 56 188979544101 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4459742388 (F7) Unknown 100 100 139532431 (F8) Unknown 100 100 33086582	112% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 480 Mixed 490 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 37.7 163% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 235 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 58.6 108% 211 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 111%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9290 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1439 (B1) Unknown 95 95 54 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 61 56 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 121 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25128586833	99.7% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 353 Mixed 352 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 85.5 4K Mixed 27 150% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 81.5 123% 235 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 524GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 18640352 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2045 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 90264791734 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10791 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1651 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 504954910 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32941 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 47244640286 (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 -41257455837129 (F1) Unknown 100 253 33711336098 (F2) Unknown 100 253 35511442591	97.4% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 161 Mixed 160 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.28 74% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	98.1% Outstanding	MC Read 37.3 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 26.5 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 23.7 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 30.8 92% 32.1 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 104%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,289x
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	877x
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 $92Bench 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: $959

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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