MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 96.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	268% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180130
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 08 '18 at 11:25
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.8 1-Core 151 2-Core 301 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 567 8-Core 581 76% 574 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDBNCE2500PNC-WRSN 250GB 1,412 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 233GB free Firmware: X41110WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 967 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 726 (A5) Unknown 100 100 266370221185 (A6) Unknown 100 100 29 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 35 (A9) Unknown 100 100 166 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 32 (AE) Unknown 100 100 515 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 65 50 214749675555 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3423159780409 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5601 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8295 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7555 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6318 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 497 Mixed 480 111% 496 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 30.4 124% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 65 119% 237 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 100%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 126GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	268% Outstanding	Read 2,748 Write 1,240 Mixed 1,391 393% 1,793 MB/s	4K Read 59.5 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 32.4 211% 80.6 MB/s	DQ Read 548 DQ Write 436 DQ Mixed 219 238% 401 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 268% Great: 236%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 2TB 21,039 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	65.5% Good	Read 119 Write 108 Mixed 85.2 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1.36 4K Write 4.38 4K Mixed 0.41 184% 2.05 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 67%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 197 173 1116 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1086 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 873 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 765 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 586 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1467 (C2) HDA temperature 107 104 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	108% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 191 Mixed 161 134% 179 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.36 138% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 109%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 172 1100 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1047 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 957 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 787 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 593 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1430 (C2) HDA temperature 108 104 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	93.4% Outstanding	Read 141 Write 185 Mixed 170 125% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.35 136% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 108%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 931GB free Firmware: CC41 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 112 100 45326832 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 46 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4230485 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 33 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 71 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 63 572588065 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 67 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 94489280545 (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 69857643069516 (F1) Unknown 100 253 866837430 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5734609760	108% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 189 Mixed 158 133% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 5.31 4K Mixed 0.93 238% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.3% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 22 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 23 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 103%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	264x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	89x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	29x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	67x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	14x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $773

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