MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48)

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	96.1% 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	263% 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	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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

System	Micro-Star MS-7B48
Motherboard	MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 12 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170905
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 07 '18 at 20:01
Run Duration	257 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-8100-$110 81,392 User benchmarks, average bench 71% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 234 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 465 62% 463 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2197 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 123 Parallax 115 100% 120 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 107 Splatting 109 88% 108 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 105GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	263% Outstanding	Read 2,584 Write 1,280 Mixed 1,389 385% 1,751 MB/s	4K Read 59.5 4K Write 152 4K Mixed 33.7 214% 81.9 MB/s	DQ Read 506 DQ Write 358 DQ Mixed 181 204% 349 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 263% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$108 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 98GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 389 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 78 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 67 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 823384928	128% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 502 Mixed 499 113% 504 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 53 200% 73.3 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 134 158% 274 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 124%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$35 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 415GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 141 3891 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2259 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1889 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 77 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2181 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 33 (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	73.5% Very good	Read 134 Write 122 Mixed 120 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.39 102% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 69%
168 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 59GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	6.63% Terrible	Read 22.5 Write 7.65 Mixed 6.39 12% 12.2 MB/s	4K Read 7.19 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.005 27% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.63% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSA.8FAR 3x4GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	60.7% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 22.1 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 79%

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Gaming 55%

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Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $143

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $188Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,228x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	2,996x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	1,817x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,535x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,364x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	1,203x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	686x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	476x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	353x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	752x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	390x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $39Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	321x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $571

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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