MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	83.8% 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.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B47
Motherboard	MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47) (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170912
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '18 at 07:49
Run Duration	3455 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

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-$208 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 87.1 1-Core 106 2-Core 213 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 891 81% 678 Pts	64-Core 1,074 66% 1,074 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 100%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 500GB-$67 43,442 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 388GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 608 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 97 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7209048 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 81 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 324 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 42 180389806116 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 73014444049 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 235 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1081 (F1) Unknown 253 253 990 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1064 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	83.8% Excellent	Read 489 Write 305 Mixed 246 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 39 4K Write 74.3 4K Mixed 23.8 129% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 51.4 73% 133 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 117%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 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 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4241 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 754 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3461 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 195 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1942 (C2) HDA temperature 121 115 26 (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	82% Excellent	Read 140 Write 146 Mixed 135 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.2 104% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 86%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4225 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 810 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3410 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 199 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2013 (C2) HDA temperature 119 115 28 (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	80.5% Excellent	Read 145 Write 135 Mixed 135 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.22 106% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 86%
Toshiba MQ01ABB200 2TB 1,626 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 1.5TB free Firmware: AY000U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th 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 4828 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1272 (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 98 98 824 (0A) Spinup retry count 125 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 241 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4119 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 163209740318 (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 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 38 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 269 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	55.3% Above average	Read 100 Write 92.1 Mixed 100 74% 97.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.22 68% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 61%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 132599696 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 917 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 4886209404 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 480 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 504954909 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1757 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 73014444061 (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 -87750476805161 (F1) Unknown 100 253 74933989075 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12933552924225	96.3% Outstanding	Read 139 Write 196 Mixed 127 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 5.45 4K Mixed 0.75 222% 2.36 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 112%
Samsung HM100UI 1TB-$47 906 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 931GB free Firmware: 2AM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 80 79 6309 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9533 (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 100 100 327 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 97 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (B5) Unknown 100 100 19845352 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 390 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 128850264090 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 82 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 97 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 35416	55.2% Above average	Read 97.1 Write 95.4 Mixed 91.5 71% 94.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.24 64% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 53%
Samsung HM641JI 640GB-$50 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 596GB free Firmware: 2AJ1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 318 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 91 84 2894 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6158 (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 14456 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 75 75 26099 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5445 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 1 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 9 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 43 253403398173 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 18947 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 263202 (C2) HDA temperature 64 43 253403398173 (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 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 10523	12% Very poor	Read 40 Write 1.76 Mixed 3.14 11% 15 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0.29 48% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 50%
Marvell Raid VD 500GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 372GB free Firmware: MV.R Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value	64% Good	Read 111 Write 111 Mixed 108 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 4.43 4K Mixed 0.65 184% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 118%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 246GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 174 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2497 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7216 (C2) HDA temperature 121 116 26 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	56.6% Above average	Read 110 Write 86.9 Mixed 80.9 69% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 0.25 104% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 86%
Toshiba MK5059GSXP 500GB-$50 5,600 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 115GB free Firmware: GN00 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th 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 2889 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 24 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 7066 (0A) Spinup retry count 232 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 209 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11985 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929217053 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (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 48 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 110 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 318 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	22.9% Poor	Read 40.8 Write 38.7 Mixed 41.3 30% 40.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 22.9% Great: 44%
Seagate ST380013AS 80GB-$75 2,837 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 74GB free Firmware: 3.05 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 58 50 172858750 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16496 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 587324594 (09) Power-on hours count 5 5 83265 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1517 (C2) HDA temperature 39 59 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 50 172858750 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	31.5% Below average	Read 54.7 Write 55 Mixed 53.4 41% 54.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.34 85% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 32%
Seagate ST3160812AS 160GB-$47 10,399 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 4GB free Firmware: 3.AA 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 99 77 139474988 (03) Spinup time 99 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22938 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 801317168 (09) Power-on hours count 16 16 74192 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 983 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 62 50 690159654 (C2) HDA temperature 38 50 64424509478 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 45 51321711 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 195 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	20.3% Poor	Read 33.9 Write 36.6 Mixed 35.1 26% 35.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.35 81% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 40%
Garmin nuvi SD Card 8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 1% 5GB free, PID 233b Operating at USB 1.1 Speed Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	0.51% Terrible	Read 0.67 Write 0.79 Mixed 0.73 1% 0.73 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.03 4% 0.23 MB/s
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.51% Great: 2%
Garmin nuvi Flash 2GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 0% 2GB free, PID 233b Operating at USB 1.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	0.44% Terrible	Read 0.65 Write 0.61 Mixed 0.62 1% 0.63 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 4% 0.22 MB/s
Poor: 0% ↑ This bench: 0.44% Great: 0%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.3% Good	MC Read 22.9 MC Write 24.2 MC Mixed 18.8 63% 22 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 17.5 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 80%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 86%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B47)

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $208Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	773x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	605x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	248x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	47x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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