MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71)

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	96.3% 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	95% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A71
Motherboard	MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170407
Uptime	20.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '17 at 14:14
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.6% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 160 2-Core 317 105% 192 Pts	4-Core 546 8-Core 869 87% 708 Pts	64-Core 866 54% 866 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1654 MHz, MLim: 1902 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 128 Parallax 115 101% 122 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 112 Splatting 104 88% 107 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 223GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3590 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 614 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 75 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7695394674	99.7% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 47.8 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 29.9 171% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 46.9 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 29.6 38% 65.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9603 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1491 (B1) Unknown 94 94 70 (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 42 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 426 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20051774956	95% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 351 Mixed 341 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 23.9 141% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 20.9 86% 194 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 732GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 5459200 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4079 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 49326226 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1827 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 67 48 26324762657 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 244 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 35 35 130780 (C2) HDA temperature 33 52 -140737488355295 (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 -22432614180099 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13961989829 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27200679326	107% Outstanding	Read 203 Write 171 Mixed 170 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.27 106% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%
WD WD2500AVJS-63B6A0 250GB 1,727 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 228GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 44 (03) Spinup time 157 153 3108 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8348 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25127 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4200 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 600 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8348 (C2) HDA temperature 109 88 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	52.3% Above average	Read 95 Write 86.9 Mixed 85.1 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.3 100% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$37 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 27.3 97% 33.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 39.1 SC Mixed 31.5 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 48.3 83% 48.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 109%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) - $114

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	2,814x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,197x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	517x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	958x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	862x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	813x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	207x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 53%, 20,831 samples	183x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	386x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	223x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	219x

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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