MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	114% 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	113% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	29.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '18 at 20:34
Run Duration	228 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 305 93% 173 Pts	4-Core 564 8-Core 848 88% 706 Pts	64-Core 848 52% 848 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 92%

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: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 153 Parallax 134 125% 147 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 144 Splatting 114 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG6 128GB 5,641 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: JURA0101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 0 (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 100 100 5915 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 910 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 342 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 192 192 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 274 (C2) HDA temperature 72 50 214748758044 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	113% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 481 Mixed 502 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 45.2 156% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 213 192% 291 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 104%
Spcc Solid State Disk 240GB 15,968 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 31GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 14738224 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 45303315053301 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1105 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 377 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14738224 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14738224 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14738224 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 21474836481 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6772 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6984 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6984 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7204	84.2% Excellent	Read 519 Write 224 Mixed 318 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 18.9 134% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 73.2 104% 192 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 99%
OCZ SOLID3 60GB 1,153 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 5GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 8828769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -28492813018402 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2592 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 301 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (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 8828769 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8828769 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8828769 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12257 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9240 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9240 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15589	36.6% Below average	Read 191 Write 50.3 Mixed 61.1 22% 101 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 47.6 4K Mixed 12.1 80% 28.5 MB/s	DQ Read 76.4 DQ Write 48.6 DQ Mixed 8.37 21% 44.5 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 50%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 162 5733 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16960 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16916 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 14398 (C0) Power-off retract count 194 194 5226 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 334206 (C2) HDA temperature 120 100 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 3 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 3	56.8% Above average	Read 98.7 Write 98.9 Mixed 115 79% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.17 75% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 67%
WD Blue 2.5" 750GB-$71 14,401 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 653GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 7756 (03) Spinup time 184 178 1758 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2483 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 80 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8119 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2250 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 961 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 138 138 188458 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 28 (C4) Reallocation count 192 192 8 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 43 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 90 90 7335 (F1) Unknown 200 200 26550394505 (F2) Unknown 200 200 21144204420 (FE) Unknown 200 200 0	65.5% Good	Read 113 Write 115 Mixed 108 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.25 90% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 62%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 223GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 238 (03) Spinup time 142 140 3858 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6298 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22326 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2365 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 427 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5870 (C2) HDA temperature 110 97 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 5	57.6% Above average	Read 102 Write 99 Mixed 96.7 75% 99.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.36 94% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 4x8GB 4,091 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.4 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 31.1 102% 35.8 GB/s	SC Read 23.4 SC Write 43.8 SC Mixed 32.8 95% 33.3 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 117%

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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	3,290x
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	878x
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	244x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $948

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