MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (20th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 80 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.02% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	59.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	8.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '18 at 09:15
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	52%

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PC Performing below expectations (20^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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 79.4 1-Core 120 2-Core 219 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 727 65% 551 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.7% 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 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	7.02% Terrible	Lighting 7.6 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 6.5 6% 8.66 fps	MRender 14.1 Gravity 8.03 Splatting 10 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 7.02% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 253GB free Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 675 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 87 (64) Unknown 100 100 422656 (65) Unknown 100 100 77728 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 91 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1588 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 100 150325100574 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 4 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1108 (EA) Unknown 100 100 683 (F1) Unknown 100 100 791 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1980 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 4	68% Good	Read 488 Write 246 Mixed 254 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 49.8 4K Mixed 12.2 84% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 30.3 71% 151 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 92%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 349 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5758 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 763 (64) Unknown 100 100 38355808 (65) Unknown 100 100 9718848 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 62 62 11637 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1319 (B7) Unknown 77 77 234 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 163209871389 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 349 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 349 (E7) Temperature 48 48 52 (E9) Unknown 100 100 72994 (EA) Unknown 100 100 49146 (F1) Unknown 100 100 63114 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12649 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 375	59.9% Above average	Read 470 Write 167 Mixed 256 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 40.5 4K Mixed 12.3 80% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 65 DQ Mixed 21.3 55% 123 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 993GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8354480 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2241 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 174793719 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9908 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1563 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 60 487981083 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 60144 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 60129542171 (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 -14452564942786 (F1) Unknown 100 253 68799278655 (F2) Unknown 100 253 581894722829	83.9% Excellent	Read 160 Write 133 Mixed 152 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.22 71% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 114%

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 way below expectations (4^th percentile)	53.3% Above average	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 20 MC Mixed 18.3 55% 19.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 12 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 81.8 49% 81.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,289x
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	877x
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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $959

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 $40	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