MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	112% 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.

Very high background CPU (91%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B48
Motherboard	MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 14 '18 at 19:13
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	91%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 86.3 1-Core 137 2-Core 275 91% 166 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 829 81% 667 Pts	64-Core 1,148 71% 1,148 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$99 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 698GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th 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 100 100 814 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 22 (AE) Unknown 100 100 40 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 53 201864577055 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 19035418585 (F7) Unknown 100 100 595184566 (F8) Unknown 100 100 176264568 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3564 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	86% Excellent	Read 486 Write 342 Mixed 337 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 25 109% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 46.6 101% 210 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 104%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3862 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 71 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 66 65 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 50 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7707592087	112% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 411 Mixed 409 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 85.9 4K Mixed 44.9 167% 57.6 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 106 140% 257 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 122%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 165GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3710 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 34 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 69 62 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2409235081	109% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 409 Mixed 416 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 41.6 159% 55.3 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 127 148% 258 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$121 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 5.5TB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 214 214 8283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 372 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 37 (C2) HDA temperature 121 119 31 (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	97% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 168 Mixed 155 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.81 4K Mixed 0.3 124% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$84 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 208821920 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 57 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54699153 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 58 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 67 63 555483169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8165 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 68719476769 (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 -74603581928259 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12401011030 (F2) Unknown 100 253 31185426100	86.8% Excellent	Read 163 Write 140 Mixed 140 111% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 114%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$80 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 430GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 168 (03) Spinup time 180 178 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 546 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 93 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11037 (C2) HDA temperature 123 118 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 35 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80.6% Excellent	Read 139 Write 141 Mixed 134 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.3 112% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 88%
WD Blue 400GB (2007)-$42 1,778 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 372GB free Firmware: 12.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 17 (03) Spinup time 175 172 6216 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1365 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 35294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1207 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2294 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3466 (C2) HDA temperature 122 100 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	43.6% Average	Read 80 Write 71.6 Mixed 77.1 58% 76.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.38 112% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 43%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 183 5508 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 62 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24346 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 54 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 64251 (C2) HDA temperature 119 114 31 (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	65.6% Good	Read 115 Write 113 Mixed 110 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.49 4K Mixed 0.29 116% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3200 C16 Series 2x8GB 42,084 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.3% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 22.9 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.3 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 109%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $249

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,278x
Core i5-8600KIntel $139Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	3,021x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	1,831x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,543x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,372x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	1,211x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	693x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	483x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	355x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	758x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	392x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	322x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $680

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16