MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 38% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 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 77.4%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	37.5% is a below average 3D score (GTX 1070 = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

4 months ago, 4 months ago, 4 months ago, 4 months ago, 4 months ago, 9 days ago, 9 days ago, 9 days ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161201
Uptime	6.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 03:34
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-7400-$178 29,581 User benchmarks, average bench 74% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	77.4% Very good	SC Int 99.3 SC Float 108 SC Mixed 104 83% 104 Pts	QC Int 398 QC Float 418 QC Mixed 406 92% 407 Pts	MC Int 394 MC Float 418 MC Mixed 407 61% 406 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$155 127,555 User benchmarks, average bench 39% Gigabyte(1458 3732) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	37.5% Below average	Lighting 116 Reflection 78.2 Parallax 117 36% 104 fps	MRender 80 Gravity 109 Splatting 80.4 39% 89.8 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 37.5% Great: 43%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$37 7,254 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 329GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5280 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4412 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9743 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2762 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 538181663 (C2) HDA temperature 71 50 554958877 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 146227 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	43.3% Average	Read 76.2 Write 74.4 Mixed 77.3 57% 75.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.31 87% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 61%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$18 26,814 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 238GB free Firmware: 12.01B02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 155 152 5241 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3681 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3315 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 237 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3688 (C2) HDA temperature 107 96 40 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	34.6% Below average	Read 50.2 Write 69.9 Mixed 68.2 48% 62.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.27 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$193 38,488 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled	76.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 25.3 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 22.5 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 109%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 70%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $290Bench 100%, 156,048 samples	4,617x
Core i5-7600KIntel $195Bench 93%, 55,366 samples	1,353x
Core i7-6700KIntel $359Bench 91%, 204,877 samples	254x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 262,129 samples	1,462x
GTX 1080Nvidia $550Bench 125%, 204,755 samples	1,455x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $799Bench 153%, 110,926 samples	990x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	904x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $120Bench 216%, 85,683 samples	754x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 95%, 184,154 samples	682x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $183Bench 84%, 64,104 samples	908x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $193Bench 91%, 38,488 samples	508x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $196Bench 85%, 11,259 samples	243x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $1,185

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $90
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $290	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $176	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $18