MSI Z370 SLI PLUS (MS-7B46)

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


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 97.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	97.6% 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	40.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

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System	Micro-Star MS-7B46
Motherboard	MSI Z370 SLI PLUS (MS-7B46) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '17 at 03:28
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	22%

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 i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 135 2-Core 272 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 540 8-Core 850 86% 695 Pts	64-Core 1,132 70% 1,132 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	97.6% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 139 Parallax 116 102% 127 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 127 Splatting 106 90% 110 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 180GB-$384 1,204 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 114GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 5103900 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -48387101548460 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1805 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 56 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5103900 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5103900 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5103900 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8869 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13236 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13236 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10406	53.3% Above average	Read 181 Write 123 Mixed 124 32% 143 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 14.5 112% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 39.1 58% 110 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 58%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 81GB free Firmware: E7FM04.5 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	202% Outstanding	Read 1,967 Write 1,138 Mixed 1,398 332% 1,501 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 26.7 145% 58.2 MB/s	DQ Read 41.2 DQ Write 475 DQ Mixed 26.6 90% 181 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 202% Great: 185%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 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 95 95 7003392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 -124828929474905 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 983 (AB) Unknown 0 0 3 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 189 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 3 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 35 64426803224 (C2) HDA temperature 24 35 64426803224 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7003392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7003392 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7003392 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9792 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6391 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6391 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5490	40.9% Average	Read 160 Write 87 Mixed 99.6 25% 115 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 11.8 93% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 22.4 DQ Write 92.9 DQ Mixed 7.4 20% 40.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 73%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 100 33079936 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 21 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 104581 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 19 (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 76 71 404226072 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 51 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 77309411352 (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 102615358636042 (F1) Unknown 100 253 921529805 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23720467	99.1% Outstanding	Read 147 Write 198 Mixed 145 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.85 224% 2.32 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 110%
Seagate Portable 1.5TB 240 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 96GB free, PID 2332 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	Read 72.2 Write 88.7 Mixed 54.7 93% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.83 4K Mixed 0.14 35% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 6,868 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 33.4 MC Mixed 25.5 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 33 SC Mixed 28.2 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 56.3 71% 56.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 103%

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Gaming 110%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 100%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370 SLI PLUS (MS-7B46) - $160

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,151x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	588x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	245x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	318x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	277x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	205x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	96x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	85x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	128x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	82x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	56x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $954

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