MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent 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	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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A72
Motherboard	MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	24.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170203
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 22:22
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	ISL-User
Background CPU	49%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 87.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 297 97% 178 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 761 78% 631 Pts	64-Core 818 51% 818 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7A72) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4749 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.88% Terrible	Lighting 8.1 Reflection 10.8 Parallax 7.69 7% 8.87 fps	MRender 12.3 Gravity 7.47 Splatting 16.7 10% 12.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.88% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.9% Good	Lighting 79.5 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67 65% 74.6 fps	MRender 72.1 Gravity 71.6 Splatting 72.7 59% 72.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 111661961 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 135136851016208 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 40 49 60132753448 (C2) HDA temperature 40 49 60132753448 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 111661961 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 111661961 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 111661961 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 1 1 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 28961 (EA) Unknown 0 0 0 (F1) Unknown 0 0 0 (F2) Unknown 0 0 0 (F4) Unknown 98 98 5570623	58.8% Above average	Read 514 Write 220 Mixed 234 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 18.6 4K Mixed 12.4 64% 18.7 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 82.6 DQ Mixed 47.9 59% 108 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 121GB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 91 83 190832068 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4093 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 58 12887529201 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 39333 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 116 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 14578 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BE) vendor-specific 61 53 690225191 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39114 (C2) HDA temperature 39 47 51539607591 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 216 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 99 99 216 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 44452911528933 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19904465612 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13509150990	68.9% Good	Read 125 Write 116 Mixed 122 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.19 59% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 114%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 108GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 136 4133 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8720 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 50298 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2718 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8632 (C2) HDA temperature 103 92 40 (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	53.9% Above average	Read 104 Write 83.9 Mixed 95.7 71% 94.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 69%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 59GB 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 6 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 77 69 7217 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9133 (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 41351 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2817 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159151140 (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 36 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 87 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9169	69.1% Good	Read 119 Write 121 Mixed 83 80% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.37 92% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 99 536 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 640 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 914666 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 639 (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 61 52 673513511 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 510 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 642 (C2) HDA temperature 39 48 90194313255 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 7 536 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -20946555501193 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1856413016 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2525048296	42.4% Average	Read 74.3 Write 73.6 Mixed 73.8 56% 73.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.6 110% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	75.1% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.9 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 29.6 SC Mixed 22.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 89%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,171x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	337x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	244x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	565x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	270x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	255x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	92x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 53%, 20,831 samples	88x
Blue 250GBWD $90Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	58x

RAM
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	213x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	121x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	66x

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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 $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