MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	71.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 02:13
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th 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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 142 2-Core 273 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 723 73% 592 Pts	64-Core 732 45% 732 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gainward(10B0 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2627 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.8% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 124 Parallax 110 102% 120 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 116 Splatting 90.6 84% 103 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4707 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3079975147470 (A6) Unknown 100 100 109 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (A8) Unknown 100 100 188 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 136 (AE) Unknown 100 100 40 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 42 180389740574 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3470787877652 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 62809 (EA) Unknown 100 100 128714 (F1) Unknown 253 253 49733 (F2) Unknown 253 253 85648 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	71.9% Very good	Read 495 Write 226 Mixed 269 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 82.2 4K Mixed 14.3 115% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 36.1 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 15.7 44% 87.1 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 108%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 23GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4546585 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 115422951112742 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 40 73017065499 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 73017065499 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4546585 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4546585 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4546585 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294962109 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6 (F4) Unknown 99 99 5570618	76.9% Very good	Read 509 Write 195 Mixed 239 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 20.8 126% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 153 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 50.9 73% 135 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 18GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	167% Outstanding	Read 857 Write 964 Mixed 852 200% 891 MB/s	4K Read 51.4 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 39.2 184% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 520 DQ Mixed 134 184% 331 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 167% Great: 133%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 15GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13772 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 955 (B1) Unknown 98 98 14 (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 72 48 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 387 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13291119833	100% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 351 Mixed 355 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 30.2 154% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 84.1 118% 220 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 188943872 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4010 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21663129 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1384 (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 73 58 521404443 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 44063 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 64424509467 (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 22003117459833 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10730931191 (F2) Unknown 100 253 151186467938	95.5% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 157 Mixed 158 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 942 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	MC Read 34.1 MC Write 36.8 MC Mixed 29.9 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 37.8 SC Mixed 29.7 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 127%

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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 $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,278x
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	742x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	587x

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 $76Bench 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 $273	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 $186	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