MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A32)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	65.5% 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	Micro-Star MS-7A32
Motherboard	MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A32) (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170920
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 10:02
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X-$225 66,470 User benchmarks, average bench 71% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 78 1-Core 107 2-Core 212 74% 132 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 850 76% 639 Pts	64-Core 1182 73% 1182 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3303) ≥ 4GB; MSI Geforce GTX 1070 Gaming X + Z 2xSLI CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 242GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17078 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3251 (B1) Unknown 96 96 37 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 70 54 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1218 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43257084215	68% Good	Read 510 Write 165 Mixed 344 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 64.4 4K Mixed 19.8 121% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 40.4 DQ Write 62.5 DQ Mixed 19.7 24% 40.9 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 126%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 148GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd 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 4667 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 755 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 378 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 38 266289217570 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4847519725 (F7) Unknown 100 100 151582607 (F8) Unknown 100 100 96169048 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3585 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	56% Above average	Read 484 Write 219 Mixed 254 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 18.9 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 8.25 71% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 18.6 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 16.4 29% 53.2 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 104%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 15661236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 28733331218422 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1519 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 135 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 15661236 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 15661236 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 15661236 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13822 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13961 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13961 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17118	65.5% Good	Read 505 Write 240 Mixed 300 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 78.2 4K Mixed 12 99% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 76.1 DQ Mixed 11.3 21% 39.2 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 91%
Seagate IronWolf 10TB (2016)-$242 347 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 67 37718166 (03) Spinup time 88 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 20 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4461496 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 62 521928735 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 22 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 103079215135 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 13 12 37718166 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 7640746819600 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10777035424 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3908839
Poor: 34% Great: 113%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 434GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 179 5483 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1764 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4912 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 803 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 356 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 58032 (C2) HDA temperature 121 108 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	59.4% Above average	Read 86.9 Write 120 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 96%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 118GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 173 5675 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2780 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6963 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1390 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 396 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 138 138 186543 (C2) HDA temperature 121 102 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	51.3% Above average	Read 71.5 Write 107 Mixed 82.6 66% 87.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.17 63% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G4D30AETA.K16FE 4x8GB 277 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2800 MHz clocked @ 1400 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 31.6 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.2 SC Write 37.2 SC Mixed 28.1 83% 29.2 GB/s	Latency 84.2 48% 84.2 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 116%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI X370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A32) - $155

CPU
Ryzen 7 1700XAMD $225Bench 71%, 66,470 samples	250x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	225x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD $125Bench 74%, 140,440 samples	180x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	174x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	121x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	115x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	54x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	52x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	89x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	73x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	58x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $918

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