MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC (MS-7A68)

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.9% 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	228% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	MSI MS-7A68
Motherboard	MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC (MS-7A68) (all builds)
Memory	21.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 02 '17 at 11:39
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	9%

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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 i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 138 2-Core 245 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 727 69% 570 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 114 Parallax 97.3 86% 105 fps	MRender 96.4 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 100 80% 97.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 337GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10900 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 35 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 74 61 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8776169712	117% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 403 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 50 186% 64.5 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 130 149% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 2,008 Write 1,065 Mixed 1,168 311% 1,413 MB/s	4K Read 55.8 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 48.1 209% 74.4 MB/s	DQ Read 553 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 191 210% 360 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 118GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16735 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 530 (B1) Unknown 89 89 373 (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 75 61 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23847333323	105% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 428 Mixed 484 106% 477 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 26.6 144% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 83 134% 259 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%
Samsung HD105SI 1TB 5,813 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 920GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 30 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 75 74 7792 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2705 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28383 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 85 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 154619674647 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 233 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 18 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9449	54.7% Above average	Read 88.3 Write 102 Mixed 115 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.37 110% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB-$113 87,239 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.2% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 22.3 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 21.3 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 120%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 TOMAHAWK ARCTIC (MS-7A68)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	250x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	97x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	87x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	68x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	20x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 79%, 14,178 samples	13x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	12x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $562

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16