MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 102%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	83.1% 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	139% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161116
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 04:42
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Memory 93.1 1-Core 160 2-Core 319 103% 191 Pts	4-Core 591 8-Core 889 92% 740 Pts	64-Core 889 55% 889 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.1% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 118 Parallax 100 84% 107 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 100 Splatting 97.7 81% 99.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend TS480GSSD220S 480GB 5,978 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 354GB free Firmware: P0624AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th 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 67 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 154 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 38 (A3) Unknown 100 100 641 (A4) Unknown 100 100 540 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43036212396063 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6349 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8679 (F5) Unknown 100 100 6378	73.6% Very good	Read 496 Write 249 Mixed 251 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 57.6 4K Mixed 21.1 105% 36.7 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 36.1 61% 122 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 95%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C4005T2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 27 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 4924 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 243 (64) Unknown 100 100 692992 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 62 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 10 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 231929413667 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 27 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 11 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 27 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2245 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1952 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1329 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 6217	139% Outstanding	Read 1,299 Write 763 Mixed 643 198% 902 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 78.6 4K Mixed 16.8 114% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 23.7 61% 129 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 159%
WD WD10EADX-00TDHB0 1TB 12,976 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 857GB free Firmware: 77.04D77 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 187 177 6641 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5804 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 38153 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3120 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 604 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 372878 (C2) HDA temperature 113 85 34 (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 48079 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.8% Above average	Read 94.7 Write 82.3 Mixed 17.8 47% 64.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.33 93% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 57%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 808GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2233 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1598 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16782 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 758 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 196 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1456 (C2) HDA temperature 109 101 34 (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	97.6% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 171 Mixed 120 114% 153 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.28 116% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 109%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 442GB free Firmware: 17.01H17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 144 143 3766 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 81 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1020 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1075 (C2) HDA temperature 107 100 36 (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 71 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.4% Good	Read 119 Write 119 Mixed 23.6 63% 87.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.42 105% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 69%
WD My Passport 083A 1TB 1,797 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 885GB free, PID 083a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	44.7% Average	Read 104 Write 108 Mixed 74.9 121% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.24 77% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	82.5% Excellent	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 25.6 82% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 32.7 SC Mixed 26.8 76% 26.4 GB/s	Latency 62 65% 62 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 88%

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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 $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	981x
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	351x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	277x
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	100x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	48x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $637

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