MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48)

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 107% UFO	Workstation 103% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 110%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	110% 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.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B48
Motherboard	MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 02:10
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Memory 98 1-Core 165 2-Core 331 108% 198 Pts	4-Core 650 8-Core 1,026 103% 838 Pts	64-Core 1,180 73% 1,180 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3792) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2042 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 146 Parallax 124 105% 133 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 126 Splatting 110 92% 112 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 168GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 19 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 57 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 62 52 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 551745766	110% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 418 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 93.8 4K Mixed 38.7 165% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 26.2 96% 213 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 122%
Crucial BX100 120GB-$70 6,931 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 111GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 545 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1874 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 103 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 79627 (A5) Unknown 100 100 128 (A6) Unknown 100 100 34 (A7) Unknown 100 100 75 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 16 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 92 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 80139 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 165176 (F2) Unknown 100 100 186289 (F5) Unknown 100 100 318508	71.8% Very good	Read 526 Write 176 Mixed 264 70% 322 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 93.9 4K Mixed 21.1 121% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29.7 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 20.9 40% 74.8 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 89%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 106GB free Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 331 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 204 (64) Unknown 100 100 1159376 (65) Unknown 100 100 193456 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 63 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 503 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 821 (B7) Unknown 99 99 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 100 154620264475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6 (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 6 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2717 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1208 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1905 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2077 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 6	63.4% Good	Read 478 Write 259 Mixed 259 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 52.8 4K Mixed 11.5 93% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 34.5 DQ Write 55.9 DQ Mixed 11.3 18% 33.9 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 88%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 832GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 117 108 7108 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8069 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6153 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3785 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 277 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 33601 (C2) HDA temperature 120 110 27 (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 1	38.5% Below average	Read 69.8 Write 63.9 Mixed 64.1 50% 66 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.27 85% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 3200 2x8GB 16,423 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	MC Read 40.6 MC Write 42.2 MC Mixed 32.7 110% 38.5 GB/s	SC Read 25.2 SC Write 45.7 SC Mixed 33.7 100% 34.9 GB/s	Latency 46.2 87% 46.2 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 103%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $102

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,243x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	3,004x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	1,823x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,539x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,367x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	1,205x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	689x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	478x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	354x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	754x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	390x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	321x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $528

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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