MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	28.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	56.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A72
Motherboard	MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170608
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 11:34
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 89.3 1-Core 123 2-Core 229 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 688 69% 563 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Nvidia(10DE 11BF) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	28.7% Poor	Lighting 34.3 Reflection 31.1 Parallax 31.4 28% 32.3 fps	MRender 38.1 Gravity 34.3 Splatting 37.4 30% 36.6 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 28GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4592481 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -100983271054842 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1307 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 213 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 42 64427261980 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 64427261980 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4592481 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4592481 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4592481 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17348 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10966 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10966 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11059	76.8% Very good	Read 481 Write 192 Mixed 262 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 22.6 129% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 54.4 75% 137 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 87%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 15GB free Firmware: R112 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 17012537 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -112699941799542 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 888 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 858 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 53 64427982878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17012537 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17012537 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17012537 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 91 91 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 49176 (EA) Unknown 0 0 36523 (F1) Unknown 0 0 36523 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27559	69.5% Good	Read 463 Write 110 Mixed 191 55% 255 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 18.1 128% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 47.5 66% 124 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 81%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 281 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (A5) Unknown 100 100 81637278090 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 54 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 35 279172874284 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 562646155395 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 694 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1836 (F1) Unknown 253 253 722 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1026 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	56.6% Above average	Read 503 Write 154 Mixed 191 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 45.8 4K Mixed 5.56 64% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 189 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 7.67 61% 140 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 78%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 871GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 22 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 39 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 64 60 622264356 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 59 (C2) HDA temperature 107 103 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	99.8% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 165 Mixed 157 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.29 128% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair ValueSelect DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 7,803 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39.5% Below average	MC Read 13.8 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 11.5 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 12.9 SC Mixed 12.6 36% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 39.5% Great: 79%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 74%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,169x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	337x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	244x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	563x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	270x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	255x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	92x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 53%, 20,831 samples	87x
Blue 250GBWD $81Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	57x

RAM
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	212x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	121x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	66x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $669

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