MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 97.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% 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	84.3% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	58.5 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 29 '17 at 09:55
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 153 2-Core 306 102% 185 Pts	4-Core 532 8-Core 824 84% 678 Pts	64-Core 839 52% 839 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.8% 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 6299) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 131 Parallax 106 107% 123 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 146 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 1TB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3245 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 970 (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 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5665080521	103% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 418 Mixed 426 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 32.3 167% 62.6 MB/s	DQ Read 44.6 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 136 112% 152 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 135%
WD Blue SATA M.2 500GB-$100 6,800 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 375GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 735 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 175 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7602267 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 478 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 70 300649283628 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 111669149722 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 330 (EA) Unknown 100 100 998 (F1) Unknown 253 253 863 (F2) Unknown 253 253 620 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	84.3% Excellent	Read 498 Write 345 Mixed 290 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 88.1 4K Mixed 20.3 132% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 40.6 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 43.5 54% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 103%
Crucial MX200 SATA M.2 250GB-$90 2,162 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 117GB free Firmware: MU02 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3308 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1067 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 98 (AE) Unknown 100 100 33 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2586 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 37 270583857195 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 97 97 3 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7630072499 (F7) Unknown 100 100 268221388 (F8) Unknown 100 100 674182633	84% Excellent	Read 528 Write 288 Mixed 314 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 17.3 126% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 166 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 23.9 68% 142 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 112%
Hitachi HDN728080ALE604 8TB 1,150 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 7.5TB free Firmware: A4GNW91X Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 112 (03) Spinup time 145 145 34389557701 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 386 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 284 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 519 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 519 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 201864904736 (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	108% Outstanding	Read 189 Write 185 Mixed 174 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 4.72 4K Mixed 0.51 184% 2.06 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 3TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 133 133 34388050351 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 910 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 733 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 172 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 910 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 910 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 193274839073 (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	91.2% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 156 Mixed 145 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.22 111% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3200 C16 Series 4x16GB 579 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 36.1 MC Write 39.2 MC Mixed 32.1 102% 35.8 GB/s	SC Read 23.4 SC Write 44.3 SC Mixed 32.9 96% 33.5 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 131%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	299x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	111x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	117x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	75x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	17x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 82%, 163,634 samples	14x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $517

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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