MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 106% 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 95.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	127% 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	314% 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	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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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, 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-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '17 at 13:26
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	16%

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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 150 2-Core 289 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 753 78% 630 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 212 Parallax 199 141% 195 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 179 Splatting 129 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 333GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	314% Outstanding	Read 2,379 Write 1,853 Mixed 1,616 432% 1,949 MB/s	4K Read 53.1 4K Write 175 4K Mixed 70.7 264% 99.7 MB/s	DQ Read 578 DQ Write 532 DQ Mixed 39.2 171% 383 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 314% Great: 353%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 138GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3352 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 38 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4843967790	119% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 409 Mixed 419 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 49.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 48.8 196% 69.9 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 122 144% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V+200 240GB-$193 568 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 54GB free Firmware: 502ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4825495 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 138469745657959 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 355 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 231 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 78 68724588569 (C2) HDA temperature 25 78 68724588569 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4825495 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4825495 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4825495 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17787 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12565 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12565 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21001	78.1% Very good	Read 521 Write 160 Mixed 234 66% 305 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 14.7 141% 59.1 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 52.5 73% 133 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 91%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$84 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 180 170 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1777 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3254 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4220 (C2) HDA temperature 118 109 29 (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	80.1% Excellent	Read 138 Write 141 Mixed 134 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.21 106% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 84%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 199 199 312430 (03) Spinup time 181 159 5925 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9883 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 6 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 20 20 59068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1023 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9857 (C2) HDA temperature 119 95 31 (C4) Reallocation count 194 194 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 192 192 1323 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 192 183 1315 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 119 45 10914	44.5% Average	Read 77.6 Write 77 Mixed 85.5 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.41 106% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 51%
Patriot Memory 32GB 889 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 29GB free, PID 5200 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	37.3% Below average	Read 178 Write 31.1 Mixed 36.3 75% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 8.05 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.66 83% 3.21 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$42 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 41.1 MC Mixed 32.2 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 45.2 SC Mixed 31.5 94% 33 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A59) - $146

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	349x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	136x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	62x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	121x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	84x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	80x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	22x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD2 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 3,240 samples	16x

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Total price: $930

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $42	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