MSI Z270 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A58)

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 79.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	113% 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	91.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

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Run History

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System	MSI MS-7A58
Motherboard	MSI Z270 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A58) (all builds)
Memory	25.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20170704
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 02:05
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	79.1% Very good	Memory 88.9 1-Core 102 2-Core 198 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 544 57% 459 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 153 Parallax 144 123% 149 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 141 Splatting 116 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 246GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14517 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1167 (B1) Unknown 95 95 57 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 58 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 259 (F1) Unknown 99 99 58624659386	91.2% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 340 Mixed 351 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 61.7 4K Mixed 26.9 125% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 96.4 124% 225 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 126%
WD Red Pro 4TB (2014)-$189 679 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 3TB free Firmware: 81.00A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 139 10408 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2632 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13001 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1144 (10) Unknown 1 199 30014861147 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 29335 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	90.5% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 144 Mixed 139 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.47 4K Mixed 0.19 34% 0.25 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 3,531 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.1% Good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 22.5 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 21.2 SC Mixed 21.4 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 129%

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Typical Z270 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A58) Builds (Compare 294 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 105%

UFO

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

Motherboard: MSI Z270 XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A58)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	210x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	26x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	50x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	43x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	20x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	13x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	11x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	13x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $161Bench 85%, 35,811 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	6x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $863

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