MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.3% 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	51.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

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

System	Micro-Star MS-7B47
Motherboard	MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47) (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170912
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 22:41
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 96.7 1-Core 138 2-Core 212 88% 149 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 844 74% 631 Pts	64-Core 1,153 71% 1,153 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3307) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.3% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 114 Parallax 97.4 84% 105 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 99.2 Splatting 101 82% 99.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 370GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 154 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 46 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 60 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 697744589	112% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 415 Mixed 417 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 49.7 192% 68.6 MB/s	DQ Read 46.9 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 118 103% 145 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 88 88 40058064 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 65884798325915 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1712 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 136 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 40058064 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 40058064 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 40058064 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7602 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7336 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7336 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13601	51.5% Above average	Read 179 Write 86.7 Mixed 118 28% 128 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 14.7 123% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 74.9 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 9.49 30% 63.3 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 61%
Crucial M500 120GB-$75 15,430 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 25GB free Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 3171 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1130 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 44 (AE) Unknown 100 100 197 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1990 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 54 197568495643 (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 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4317039549 (F7) Unknown 100 100 136177484 (F8) Unknown 100 100 216928350	47% Average	Read 264 Write 111 Mixed 157 39% 178 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 30.7 4K Mixed 28.1 86% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 86 DQ Write 30.8 DQ Mixed 41.8 35% 52.9 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 77%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$90 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 148GB free Firmware: 01.03A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 197 197 279595 (03) Spinup time 155 154 3233 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4065 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8902 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3639 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1910 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4065 (C2) HDA temperature 114 95 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 193 172 391 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 187 100 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 36517	59.9% Above average	Read 103 Write 106 Mixed 87.6 74% 98.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.43 112% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 58%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$22 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 15GB free Firmware: 58.01D58 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 151 150 3416 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2595 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2207 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 631 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2595 (C2) HDA temperature 116 94 27 (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	25% Poor	Read 38.4 Write 48.2 Mixed 37 31% 41.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 25% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3232 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	MC Read 37.1 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 26.8 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 30.6 87% 30.3 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 107%

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Gaming 94%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 95%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 86%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47)

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	773x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	603x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	248x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	258x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	197x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	184x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	80x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	66x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	79x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $672

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