MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	12.6% 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	93.4% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 22:47
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 146 2-Core 290 98% 178 Pts	4-Core 571 8-Core 571 76% 571 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3289) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2055 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	12.6% Very poor	Lighting 13 Reflection 2.88 Parallax 72.5 11% 29.5 fps	MRender 70.6 Gravity 0.13 Splatting 0.39 16% 23.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 12.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 500GB 3,936 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 383GB free Firmware: EMT41B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 6 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 254616463	99.2% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 30.4 169% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 48.9 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 100 71% 87.4 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 128%
Samsung SM841 2.5" 7mm 256GB 2,869 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 197GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM01D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1505 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 342 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9152 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23158473935 (F2) Unknown 99 99 29861743470	93.4% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 411 Mixed 463 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 25.3 150% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 37.3 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 76.9 60% 78.9 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 107%
SK hynix SC308 SATA 256GB 6,224 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 185GB free Firmware: 30000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 741 (64) Unknown 100 100 6665005 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 100 (B2) Unknown 100 100 31 (B3) Unknown 100 100 274 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5198 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 0 64427589659 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 17 12 (E7) Temperature 92 92 9 (EA) Unknown 100 100 53937981216 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3840350437 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4704055267 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 2486002	75.9% Very good	Read 525 Write 239 Mixed 320 79% 361 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 15.4 130% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 34.1 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 15.6 29% 55.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 86%
Intel 530 Series 180GB 4,011 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 115GB free Firmware: DC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -72121090834395 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 27 37 94491705371 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9970 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 32 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9970 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4976 (F9) Unknown 100 100 266	75.3% Very good	Read 453 Write 153 Mixed 253 63% 287 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 16.8 132% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 13.3 69% 157 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 214GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 5007696 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2214035 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2130 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 56 521994270 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3984 (C2) HDA temperature 30 44 77309411358 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 15 8 5007696 (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 -83584358542985 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2581495190 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1506079017	46.5% Average	Read 72.4 Write 89.8 Mixed 71.8 59% 78 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.32 63% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 13,232 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 39.5 MC Mixed 29.5 101% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 38 SC Mixed 30.9 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 108%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,282x
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	875x
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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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