MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78)

Performance Results


Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 46% Yacht	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 36.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	74.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.8% 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A78
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171120
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '18 at 16:05
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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-$250 712,312 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 (1^st percentile)	36.2% Below average	Memory 1.24 1-Core 89.7 2-Core 184 42% 91.5 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 763 67% 570 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 92%

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: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.4% Very good	Lighting 88.9 Reflection 110 Parallax 97.6 72% 99 fps	MRender 93.2 Gravity 97.2 Splatting 95.6 78% 95.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc SSD162 120GB 155 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 16062554 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 32 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 116728621186356 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2447 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 493 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 32971 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16062554 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 32 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16062554 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16062554 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 31530 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19103 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19103 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10978	75.8% Very good	Read 485 Write 201 Mixed 238 68% 308 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 18.6 122% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 212 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 14.4 61% 137 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 77%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 833GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 90 17763 (03) Spinup time 185 171 1708 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7636 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2419 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 401 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7234 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 25 (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	99.7% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 177 Mixed 157 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 2.66 4K Mixed 0.21 122% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 109%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB 30,139 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 7GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	12.4% Very poor	Read 23.7 Write 9.74 Mixed 10.1 16% 14.5 MB/s	4K Read 6.64 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 1.4 131% 3.26 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 12.4% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 1x16GB 13,141 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	35.9% Below average	MC Read 15.7 MC Write 15.7 MC Mixed 12.6 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 2.8 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 3.3 14% 4.83 GB/s	Latency 494 8% 494 ns
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 49%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) - $500

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,115x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	301x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	231x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	93x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	114x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	66x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $161Bench 85%, 35,811 samples	38x

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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