MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59)

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 100% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	132% 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	238% 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171120
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '18 at 06:18
Run Duration	294 Seconds
Run User	EST-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 132 2-Core 250 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 665 68% 552 Pts	64-Core 769 48% 769 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% 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: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 200 Parallax 184 150% 189 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 179 Splatting 130 118% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 261GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 1,948 Write 1,330 Mixed 1,241 333% 1,506 MB/s	4K Read 55.1 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 46.5 206% 73.6 MB/s	DQ Read 474 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 162 177% 303 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 750GB-$310 3,724 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 226GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 35339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 307 (B1) Unknown 97 97 33 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 48 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 208 (F1) Unknown 99 99 75522417235	93.7% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 344 Mixed 357 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 74.4 4K Mixed 27.9 136% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 96.3 118% 212 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 125%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 323GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 189 170 7516 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 313 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30498 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 22009 (C2) HDA temperature 120 103 32 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	56.7% Above average	Read 126 Write 70.9 Mixed 65.9 65% 87.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 100%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 213GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 179 5666 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 667 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 47079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 645 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 363 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 303 (C2) HDA temperature 119 105 31 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	75.6% Very good	Read 131 Write 133 Mixed 117 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 88%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 4TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 163GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 166 5941 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 405 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 158 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4323 (C2) HDA temperature 119 106 31 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	48.2% Average	Read 72.6 Write 95 Mixed 79.8 62% 82.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.13 80% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 85%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 7GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 289 (03) Spinup time 180 173 5958 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 864 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 44976 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 485 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 329 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 534 (C2) HDA temperature 119 104 31 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	67% Good	Read 119 Write 114 Mixed 98.9 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.16 73% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 88%
WDC WD40 EFRX-68N32N0 4TB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1.5TB free, PID 2773 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	36% Below average	Read 123 Write 69.1 Mixed 109 123% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.13 40% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 60%
WDC WD40 EFRX-68WT0N0 4TB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 467GB free, PID 2773 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	40% Average	Read 111 Write 78.2 Mixed 87 113% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 57%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 52GB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	45% Average	Read 119 Write 89.3 Mixed 64.8 109% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.34 105% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 31.3 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 23.9 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 23.1 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 58.6 68% 58.6 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 95%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	299x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	111x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	117x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	75x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	17x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	35x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Aegis DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $38Bench 82%, 163,634 samples	14x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $516

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