MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69)

Performance Results


Gaming 145% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 125% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	141% 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	62.6% 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-7A69
Motherboard	MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69) (all builds)
Memory	14.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161213
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 03:40
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 92.8 1-Core 160 2-Core 318 103% 190 Pts	4-Core 624 8-Core 889 95% 756 Pts	64-Core 891 55% 891 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374D) ≥ 4GB; aorus CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	141% Outstanding	Lighting 202 Reflection 214 Parallax 189 165% 202 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 197 Splatting 132 125% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900 512GB 926 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 311GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.8.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8605017236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -50319836833451 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 704 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 142 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 58 47248441372 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 104 104 8605017236 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 104 104 8605017236 (CC) Soft ECC correction 104 104 8605017236 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10752 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9823 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9823 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7834	62.6% Good	Read 416 Write 273 Mixed 221 67% 303 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 19.5 4K Mixed 18.9 75% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 79.6 DQ Mixed 47.7 61% 114 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 65%
Crucial M500 240GB-$73 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 220GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 18064 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1835 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 195 (AE) Unknown 100 100 336 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 46 236222545942 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (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 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 22166410329 (F7) Unknown 100 100 328213775 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2372220135	96.5% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 273 Mixed 353 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 31.7 156% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 53.2 106% 217 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 91%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 11GB free Firmware: S9FM02.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6366 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 714 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 14 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6553613 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1170484	60.2% Good	Read 397 Write 151 Mixed 220 56% 256 MB/s	4K Read 37 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 6.36 108% 42.1 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 96.3 DQ Mixed 1.24 33% 80.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 83%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 917GB free Firmware: 2BC10006 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 161 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 88 79 3787 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1575 (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 10732 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9493 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 219043921943 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 7 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 8 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 97979	57.8% Above average	Read 93.7 Write 107 Mixed 103 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 0.57 151% 1.54 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 70%
Toshiba MK1059GSM 1TB 4,891 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 887GB free Firmware: GU001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 3604 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2391 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 8715 (0A) Spinup retry count 146 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1079 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1787 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 93615 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929085978 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 16490 (DE) Loaded hours 89 89 4617 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 387 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	47% Average	Read 88.1 Write 75.8 Mixed 80.7 61% 81.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.23 69% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2400 C15 Series 2x8GB 4,460 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 31.5 SC Mixed 25.4 73% 25.6 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69) - $128

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	183x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	112x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	70x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	45x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	33x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	17x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	15x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $636

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16