MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	98.8% 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	75.5% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161201
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '18 at 15:20
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 270 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 516 70% 522 Pts	64-Core 519 32% 519 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C303) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	98.8% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 130 Parallax 112 105% 124 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 119 Splatting 102 87% 106 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 103GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 21 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 53 48 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11194954632
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 46354683 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 109246788172197 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 141 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 77 (B1) Unknown 0 0 88 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 47 54 60133081135 (C2) HDA temperature 47 54 60133081135 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 46354683 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 46354683 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 46354683 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 103023 (EA) Unknown 0 0 63549 (F1) Unknown 0 0 63549 (F2) Unknown 0 0 48666	75.5% Very good	Read 485 Write 229 Mixed 270 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 90.8 4K Mixed 16.7 111% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 65.4 94% 174 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 85%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 837GB free Firmware: JP4OA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 97 65541 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 92 (03) Spinup time 118 118 25790775616 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 764 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 31 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 61355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 522 (C0) Power-off retract count 80 80 24125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 24125 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 240518889513 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 766346	65.5% Good	Read 115 Write 113 Mixed 119 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.28 77% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 74%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 397GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2745 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 41636 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 228 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2615 (C2) HDA temperature 98 91 45 (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	94.4% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 171 Mixed 169 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.72 4K Mixed 0.38 128% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$51 7,248 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 30 MC Mixed 24.3 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 25.4 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 86%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59) - $120

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	980x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	541x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	350x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	276x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	247x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	85x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
MX300 275GBCrucial $100Bench 79%, 67,541 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	173x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	99x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	48x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $645

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