MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	72.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161027
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	May 19 '18 at 20:45
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 140 2-Core 273 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 758 75% 611 Pts	64-Core 764 47% 764 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	107% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 201 Parallax 179 150% 188 fps	MRender 65.6 Gravity 18.3 Splatting 22.1 27% 35.3 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 268GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 2,070 Write 1,384 Mixed 1,241 346% 1,565 MB/s	4K Read 55.3 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 28.8 189% 70.9 MB/s	DQ Read 54.6 DQ Write 401 DQ Mixed 27.2 80% 161 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 254%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^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 15916 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3086 (AA) Unknown 100 100 16 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 91 91 282 (AE) Unknown 100 100 130 (B5) Unknown 100 100 7941435688132 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 3068 (C2) HDA temperature 69 233 532568801311 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4294967295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 91 91 9 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	72.9% Very good	Read 500 Write 264 Mixed 343 82% 369 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 17.8 115% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 26.8 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 38.9 40% 61.3 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 91%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 355GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3045 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1212 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 20539 (C2) HDA temperature 114 104 29 (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	95.5% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 152 Mixed 145 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.24 97% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 109%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 133GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 5 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8220 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9280 (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 89 89 55392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5199 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 25 25 75 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 64 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 83 53 286326801 (C2) HDA temperature 77 52 386990103 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 86834 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 99 12 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0
Poor: 31% Great: 62%
Seagate Portable 1TB 1,255 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 146GB free, PID 2300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 8% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB 2,670 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.3% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.5 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,290x
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	878x
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 $94Bench 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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $948

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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