MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	100% 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	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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 15:34
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th 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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 87.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 246 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 499 67% 501 Pts	64-Core 503 31% 503 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3289) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.2% Good	Lighting 79.4 Reflection 76.7 Parallax 65.7 65% 73.9 fps	MRender 69.5 Gravity 69.7 Splatting 70.3 57% 69.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 500GB 3,936 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 462GB free Firmware: EMT41B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 59 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 54648462	114% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 404 Mixed 415 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 48.5 178% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 117 140% 246 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 128%
Samsung SM841 2.5" 7mm 256GB 2,869 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 201GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM01D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1504 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 342 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9152 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23065030564 (F2) Unknown 99 99 29772722028	100% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 396 Mixed 409 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 98.3 4K Mixed 26.9 139% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 23.4 102% 228 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 107%
SK hynix SC308 SATA 256GB 6,224 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 185GB free Firmware: 30000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2077 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 740 (64) Unknown 100 100 6662064 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 100 (B2) Unknown 100 100 31 (B3) Unknown 100 100 274 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5198 (B5) Unknown 253 253 0 (B6) Unknown 253 253 0 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 0 64427589661 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 17 2 (E7) Temperature 92 92 9 (EA) Unknown 100 100 53913724128 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3817250693 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4683101630 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 2485821	82.6% Excellent	Read 514 Write 238 Mixed 324 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 16.8 121% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 16.6 86% 197 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 86%
Intel 530 Series 180GB 4,011 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 36GB free Firmware: DC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10505490006046 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 22 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 29 37 94491705373 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9663 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 32 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9663 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4671 (F9) Unknown 100 100 254	68.5% Good	Read 431 Write 139 Mixed 264 61% 278 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 98 4K Mixed 13.4 116% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 44.4 82% 164 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 214GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 2136 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3386 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2205303 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4429 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2129 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538968096 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3977 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 8 2136 (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 -61813169319568 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2718776211 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4004194402	45.2% Average	Read 77.8 Write 80.1 Mixed 88 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.75 4K Mixed 0.37 67% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 13,232 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.9% Good	MC Read 23 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 20.7 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.9 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 108%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) - $175

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,291x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	903x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	330x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	879x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	743x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	588x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	245x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	159x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	520x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	215x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	132x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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