MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 94.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.9% 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	70% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170331
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 05 '17 at 01:49
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 284 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 523 73% 537 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 119 Parallax 100 86% 108 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 97.3 Splatting 98.9 81% 98.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 216GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 623 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 571 (A5) Unknown 100 100 446718738905 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 54 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 514 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 36 274877906989 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 674317795485 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1899 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3917 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2078 (F2) Unknown 253 253 714 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	85.3% Excellent	Read 507 Write 424 Mixed 262 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 6.05 108% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 6.23 63% 144 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 86%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 13029717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 137559212560778 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4228 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 300 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 62 34363801635 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13029717 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13029717 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13029717 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9369 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8870 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8870 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10553	70% Very good	Read 496 Write 146 Mixed 204 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 13.8 124% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 26.8 49% 97.2 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174431824 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4654 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4438322 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2671 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3526 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 34948579363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19220 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 -140737488355293 (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 138753213465670 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8013199759 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3525388091	99% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 172 Mixed 159 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.4 109% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x16GB 1,843 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	89.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 35.3 MC Mixed 29.4 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 31.1 SC Mixed 25.9 74% 26 GB/s	Latency 58.1 69% 58.1 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 96%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	266x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	89x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	78x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	67x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	14x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $553

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $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) $23	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16