MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 00:27
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 508 63% 480 Pts	64-Core 508 31% 508 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 118% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 137 Splatting 110 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WD10EZRZ-00HTKB0 250GB 233GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 378 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 36 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 294048766	104% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 487 Mixed 500 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 33.2 168% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 45.5 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 31.9 40% 67.4 MB/s

WD WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0 1TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 122 121 4875 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 603 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3422 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 602 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15652 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 27 (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	65.9% Good	Read 128 Write 101 Mixed 99.2 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.19 80% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 24.4 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 24.6 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 90%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI PLUS (MS-7A59) - $136

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	996x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	552x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	150x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	358x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	284x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	253x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	85x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	175x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	101x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	48x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $794

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