MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78)

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 89.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	48.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	261% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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-7A78
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '18 at 20:03
Run Duration	263 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (82^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 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Memory 95.6 1-Core 153 2-Core 231 93% 160 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 848 77% 646 Pts	64-Core 838 52% 838 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2780 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	48.4% Average	Lighting 54.7 Reflection 63.1 Parallax 51.2 45% 56.3 fps	MRender 77.9 Gravity 54.7 Splatting 71.4 56% 68 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 133%
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7A78) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4944 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.07% Terrible	Lighting 8.37 Reflection 12 Parallax 8.5 7% 9.64 fps	MRender 12.7 Gravity 7.53 Splatting 16.7 10% 12.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.07% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 1.5TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11661 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 452 (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 68 49 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 164 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21099118954	109% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 416 Mixed 430 101% 456 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 34 168% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 154 150% 238 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 837GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2765 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2084 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 45 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 174 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12092618387	111% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 409 Mixed 418 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 51.1 191% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 50.3 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 123 101% 139 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 133%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 689GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	294% Outstanding	Read 2,776 Write 1,495 Mixed 1,454 420% 1,908 MB/s	4K Read 53.2 4K Write 152 4K Mixed 59 237% 88 MB/s	DQ Read 503 DQ Write 378 DQ Mixed 188 209% 356 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 294% Great: 302%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 333GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	261% Outstanding	Read 2,768 Write 1,333 Mixed 1,405 403% 1,835 MB/s	4K Read 60 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 37.7 216% 80.8 MB/s	DQ Read 63.2 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 32.4 51% 92.4 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 261% Great: 254%
WD WD80EZZX-11CSGA0 8TB 694 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 7.5TB free Firmware: 83.H0A03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 120 (03) Spinup time 142 142 38685114831 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 456 (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 2971 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 396 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 795 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 795 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 236224577572 (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% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 158 Mixed 150 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.43 125% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 99%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 5.5TB 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 198 197 9066 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2383 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6372 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2305 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7814 (C2) HDA temperature 120 102 32 (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	92.3% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 162 Mixed 150 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.55 4K Mixed 0.23 113% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 97%
JMicron 500GB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 419GB free, PID 1561 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	340% Outstanding	Read 414 Write 433 Mixed 420 549% 422 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 58 4K Mixed 22.5 2,858% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 33.2 DQ Write 64.8 DQ Mixed 22.8 3,100% 40.2 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 340% Great: 246%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB 12,182 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 35.5 MC Mixed 28 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 28 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 55.2 72% 55.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 99%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) - $500

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,115x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	301x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	254x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	231x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	93x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	114x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	66x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $161Bench 85%, 35,811 samples	38x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,294

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 $184	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) $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