MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 97.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.1% 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	70.6% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161117
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 13:37
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.9 1-Core 146 2-Core 292 98% 177 Pts	4-Core 579 8-Core 583 78% 581 Pts	64-Core 582 36% 582 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2127 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 117 Parallax 114 94% 116 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 101 Splatting 98.4 82% 99.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 35573721 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -15771119907866 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 787 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 26 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 47 77312491555 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 77312491555 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 35573721 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 35573721 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 35573721 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 98784247809 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11260 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9875 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9875 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9377 (F4) Unknown 99 99 5505064	70.6% Very good	Read 501 Write 237 Mixed 313 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 99.7 4K Mixed 13.9 107% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 23.1 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 10.1 41% 84.9 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 84%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 191GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 243 168 2833 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9448 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 24968 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3552 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 227 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 105 105 285135 (C2) HDA temperature 119 102 31 (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	26.8% Poor	Read 37.8 Write 55.4 Mixed 47 35% 46.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.2 66% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 26.8% Great: 59%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.2% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 22.4 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 24.3 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 60.1 67% 60.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 104%

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Gaming 89%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,283x
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 $95Bench 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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Total price: $960

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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