MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

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Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A72
Motherboard	MSI Z270 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161202
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 04:11
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing as expected (47^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 83.4 1-Core 135 2-Core 250 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 654 68% 548 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3367) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 92.6 Reflection 128 Parallax 110 76% 110 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 117 Splatting 97.5 86% 106 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 250GB-$90 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 198GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1376270 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 231 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 55 236224643106 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 17179869188 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 77 (EA) Unknown 100 100 108 (F1) Unknown 253 253 105 (F2) Unknown 253 253 25 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.4% Very good	Read 497 Write 265 Mixed 223 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 78.6 4K Mixed 18.2 123% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 35.6 DQ Write 88 DQ Mixed 13 24% 45.5 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 100%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 31GB free Firmware: 5.2.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 25773547197 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 9 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 68813966039806 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 311 (AB) Unknown 0 0 4 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 99 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 4 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 566938828835 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 92 92 25773547197 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 9 (C9) Soft read error rate 92 92 25773547197 (CC) Soft ECC correction 92 92 25773547197 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16249 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11039 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11039 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10528	61.8% Good	Read 404 Write 136 Mixed 203 54% 248 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 18 118% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 12.6 26% 49.8 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 80%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 175 175 2250 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 16 (C2) HDA temperature 112 105 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	105% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 182 Mixed 159 131% 175 MB/s	4K Read 1.29 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.28 129% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 550GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222875576 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5814 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18529250 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16976 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 68 2411 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 59 588578850 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84587 (C2) HDA temperature 34 41 55834574882 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 172 76035 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -127801046856535 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4211380437 (F2) Unknown 100 253 74682710003	97.8% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 167 Mixed 159 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.23 83% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GB 21,822 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.3% Good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 17.3 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 74.5 54% 74.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 83%

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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 $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,172x
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	565x
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	88x
Blue 250GBWD $90Bench 79%, 26,761 samples	58x

RAM
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	213x
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: $658

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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