MSI Z270 GAMING M7 (MS-7A57)

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 97% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	118% 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	288% 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7A57
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M7 (MS-7A57) (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171120
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 20 '18 at 23:41
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 141 2-Core 278 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 733 73% 598 Pts	64-Core 767 47% 767 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.1% 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: 390.65 Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	118% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 173 Parallax 157 133% 164 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 157 Splatting 111 103% 127 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 618GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	288% Outstanding	Read 2,670 Write 1,474 Mixed 1,503 414% 1,882 MB/s	4K Read 55.8 4K Write 140 4K Mixed 54.2 228% 83.2 MB/s	DQ Read 569 DQ Write 423 DQ Mixed 215 237% 402 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 288% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 191GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7156 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 181 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 73 61 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6781826150	121% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 500 Mixed 516 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 48.2 175% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 169 177% 291 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 106GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1875 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 380 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 62 50 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6202085827	117% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 407 Mixed 416 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 51.8 187% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 132 151% 260 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 31GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7157 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 182 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 72 58 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7343708862	122% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 500 Mixed 517 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 47.4 176% 65.6 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 171 179% 295 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171072656 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1837 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6769067 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5826 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1610 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65538 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 61 504692765 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 524 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4867 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 77309411357 (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 -132817568653431 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15520821598 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7034562937	94.3% Outstanding	Read 145 Write 183 Mixed 148 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.27 4K Mixed 0.87 226% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3600 C18 4x4GB 312 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 38.3 MC Write 43 MC Mixed 33.7 110% 38.3 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 42.3 SC Mixed 30.5 90% 31.4 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 123%

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Gaming 105%

UFO

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 90%

Aircraft carrier

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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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,128

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