MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	131% 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	70.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	May 13 '17 at 13:46
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 221 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 666 64% 528 Pts	64-Core 674 42% 674 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 200 Parallax 178 150% 188 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 177 Splatting 123 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 142GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd 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 100 100 287 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 85 (64) Unknown 100 100 501536 (65) Unknown 100 100 114272 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 147 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1319 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 100 193274970146 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 904 (EA) Unknown 100 100 426 (F1) Unknown 100 100 735 (F2) Unknown 100 100 877 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	70.1% Very good	Read 473 Write 255 Mixed 262 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 55.9 4K Mixed 11.5 91% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 10.5 64% 151 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 88%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 79GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4293 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1210 (B1) Unknown 95 95 49 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12355264318	87.4% Excellent	Read 490 Write 340 Mixed 330 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 24.6 139% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 45.8 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 20.4 51% 101 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 903GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 171 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1663 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4446 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1177 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1631 (C2) HDA temperature 107 101 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	101% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 179 Mixed 161 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.37 142% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	87.1% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 27.7 89% 31.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 32.5 SC Mixed 25.5 73% 25.6 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 97%

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Desktop 90%

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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	3,282x
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