MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.8% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (51%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161020
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 12:06
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	51%

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PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 119 2-Core 227 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 631 64% 517 Pts	64-Core 690 43% 690 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.8% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 114 Parallax 108 84% 108 fps	MRender 97.4 Gravity 96.7 Splatting 101 81% 98.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 579GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 88 135702720 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1040 (05) Reallocated sector count 87 87 17112 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 4533781527 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8458 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1026 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3080 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 24 24 76 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 453836827 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 474 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8339 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 25769803803 (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 -13228499263591 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29594874035 (F2) Unknown 100 253 621613577167	68.5% Good	Read 146 Write 92.7 Mixed 119 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.22 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.08 37% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 87GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 177982512 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3290 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48244254 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5633 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 595 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 365078249589 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 58 436994074 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3373 (C2) HDA temperature 26 5 21474836506 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 177982512 (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 26873610375748 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6466253581 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17170684254	76.3% Very good	Read 157 Write 109 Mixed 138 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.19 69% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 18ASF1G72PDZ-2G3B1 8G 2400 CL171717 16GB 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	78.1% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 30.1 MC Mixed 25.1 79% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 21.7 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns

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Gaming 89%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

Motherboard: MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59) - $146

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	349x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	135x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	62x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	121x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	84x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	80x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	22x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD2 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 3,240 samples	16x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $931

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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