MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	257% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180130
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 04:02
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing way above expectations (91^st 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-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 5.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 94.1 1-Core 166 2-Core 330 106% 197 Pts	4-Core 651 8-Core 659 87% 655 Pts	64-Core 659 41% 659 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 233GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 3 (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 67 65 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8354780	111% Outstanding	Read 530 Write 418 Mixed 431 102% 460 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 97.6 4K Mixed 42.3 175% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 111 124% 211 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 128%
WDC WDBNCE2500PNC-WRSN 250GB 1,412 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 134GB free Firmware: X41110WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1076 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1382 (A5) Unknown 100 100 889160074652 (A6) Unknown 100 100 35 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 43 (A9) Unknown 100 100 166 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1125 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 71 50 214749675549 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4441083807033 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6915 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10331 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9200 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7683 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 502 Mixed 478 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 28.6 118% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 36.4 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 57.5 73% 122 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 100%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,773 Write 1,233 Mixed 1,463 400% 1,823 MB/s	4K Read 57.9 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 27.5 194% 73.2 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 323 DQ Mixed 152 165% 277 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 236%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 2TB 21,039 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2TB free Firmware: 0304 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	66.7% Good	Read 116 Write 116 Mixed 80.4 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.17 96% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 67%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 907GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 172 1941 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1789 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1080 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1470 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1713 (C2) HDA temperature 113 100 30 (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	103% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 186 Mixed 158 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.34 136% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 907GB free Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 173 1966 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1825 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 995 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1448 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1238 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1741 (C2) HDA temperature 112 99 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 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	108% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 190 Mixed 166 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.36 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.37 146% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3333 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 39 MC Write 44.5 MC Mixed 30.1 108% 37.9 GB/s	SC Read 22.8 SC Write 45.1 SC Mixed 31.7 95% 33.2 GB/s	Latency 59.6 67% 59.6 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 103%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	264x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	89x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	29x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	67x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	14x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $773

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