MSI Z270 GAMING M7 (MS-7A57)

Performance Results


Gaming 135% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 117% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 99.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	135% 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	96.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A57
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M7 (MS-7A57) (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170104
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '17 at 04:28
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 151 2-Core 310 102% 186 Pts	4-Core 551 8-Core 847 86% 699 Pts	64-Core 852 53% 852 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 191 Reflection 208 Parallax 184 156% 194 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 184 Splatting 128 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24422 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 229 (B1) Unknown 93 93 76 (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 71 40 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 129 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33361507808	96.9% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 351 Mixed 356 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 26.3 152% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 242 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 44.5 88% 176 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 118%
MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$60 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 149% 22GB free Firmware: E7FM04.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	220% Outstanding	Read 2,118 Write 1,107 Mixed 1,381 339% 1,536 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 41.2 184% 73.9 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 510 DQ Mixed 24.7 93% 191 MB/s
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 220% Great: 204%
Seagate Barracuda Desktop 5TB-$124 3,845 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 4.5TB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 193032400 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2357 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 55 12886540330 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6579 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 94490787866 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 63 387252247 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 838 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3247 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 60129542167 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 100 193032400 (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 -12631498817425 (F1) Unknown 100 253 546386786 (F2) Unknown 100 253 252868341	73.5% Very good	Read 156 Write 99.3 Mixed 74.1 81% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 4.54 4K Mixed 0.6 184% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 90%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 64 73535951 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1900 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3954634 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 24232205490789 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 67 387186711 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1615 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5464 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 60129542167 (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 -120078695660598 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4110437539 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1399781478	89.2% Excellent	Read 162 Write 149 Mixed 158 118% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.29 100% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 926GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 94688792 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 378 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 36353931 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6843 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 64 454688795 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21920 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 77309411355 (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 88832808587996 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22014092862 (F2) Unknown 100 253 65358659519	66.4% Good	Read 90.9 Write 139 Mixed 101 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.55 181% 2.11 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 94%

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 @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 36.7 MC Mixed 26.1 93% 32.7 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 28.9 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 107%

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Gaming 105%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING M7 (MS-7A57) - $250

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,043x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	138x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	88x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	283x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	212x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	152x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	72x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	63x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	57x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	53x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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