MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B45)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Graphics	106% 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	169% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B45
Motherboard	MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B45) (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180515
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '18 at 05:54
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8086K-$399 38,086 User benchmarks, average bench 91% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg) Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		1-Core 96.4 2-Core 220 70% 158 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 815 74% 620 Pts	64-Core 1,250 77% 1,250 Pts
Poor: 81% Great: 102%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 114% 140 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 135 Splatting 107 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$158 331,647 User benchmarks, average bench 297% 880GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	169% Outstanding	Read 1,780 Write 735 Mixed 1,154 269% 1,223 MB/s	4K Read 47.1 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 28.9 143% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 145 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 159 141% 205 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 169% Great: 372%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 0GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 -38611755969897 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1943 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 408 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 89 89 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23790 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20262 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20262 (F2) Unknown 0 0 29275	26.1% Poor	Read 150 Write 55.7 Mixed 33.4 17% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 38.3 4K Mixed 6.29 52% 20 MB/s	DQ Read 56.7 DQ Write 30.6 DQ Mixed 17.9 20% 35.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 26.1% Great: 51%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 275GB free Firmware: 12.01B02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 346 (03) Spinup time 156 147 5175 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12353 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6088 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1640 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12355 (C2) HDA temperature 117 104 30 (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	40.9% Average	Read 74.7 Write 67.5 Mixed 63.1 51% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.4 119% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 60%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 14GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 68 9047 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4607 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 22365 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4048 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 60 171799281692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 9 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4785	66.3% Good	Read 87.8 Write 143 Mixed 94.4 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.38 108% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C17 2x8GB 9,834 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	MC Read 41.3 MC Write 41.1 MC Mixed 27.1 104% 36.5 GB/s	SC Read 1.5 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 2.3 16% 5.67 GB/s	Latency 584 7% 584 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 117%

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Gaming 111%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7B45) - $206

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,291x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	603x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	262x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	537x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	438x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	250x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	154x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	140x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	137x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	194x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	121x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	85x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $964

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 $45	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