MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A68)

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96.9% 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	75.8% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A68
Motherboard	MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A68) (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '17 at 23:10
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 135 2-Core 251 91% 160 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 658 69% 552 Pts	64-Core 659 41% 659 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	96.9% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 136 Parallax 113 101% 124 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 120 Splatting 101 88% 109 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 51 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3276831 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 177 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 67 287764381735 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 34359738376 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 217 (EA) Unknown 100 100 328 (F1) Unknown 253 253 308 (F2) Unknown 253 253 111 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.8% Very good	Read 500 Write 148 Mixed 202 62% 283 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 78 4K Mixed 19.1 118% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 46 98% 203 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 101%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 154GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 100 100 945 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1975 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 146 (A3) Unknown 100 100 53 (A4) Unknown 100 100 42407 (A5) Unknown 100 100 67 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 189 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 27606 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 379208 (F2) Unknown 100 100 639705 (F5) Unknown 100 100 678512	106% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 430 Mixed 470 105% 473 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 40.2 155% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 71.4 108% 202 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 137502968 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 4294987676 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 66 63 605552674 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 25 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 103079215138 (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 -74259984547816 (F1) Unknown 100 253 309916030 (F2) Unknown 100 253 130351188	108% Outstanding	Read 199 Write 179 Mixed 185 142% 188 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.17 75% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 108% 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 as expected (49^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	MC Read 32.8 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 26.4 88% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 24.6 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 58 69% 58 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 110%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z270 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A68) Builds (Compare 1,727 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 53%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 45%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A68) - $140

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	759x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	353x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	165x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	225x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	213x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	93x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	39x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	53x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	35x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $649

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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