MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69)

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.4% 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	117% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A69
Motherboard	MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69) (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20180124
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 10:11
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 85 1-Core 118 2-Core 224 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 398 50% 381 Pts	64-Core 421 26% 421 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 124 Parallax 106 95% 115 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 109 87% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SSD 250GB 2,741 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2764 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1513 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 107 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10187715230	117% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 491 Mixed 500 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 44.9 175% 63.8 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 129 147% 252 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: HP51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 34133632 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4619 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48059065 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3400 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2218 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1793638066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 471334940 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11612 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 60129542172 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	109% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 179 Mixed 182 141% 187 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.23 88% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 931GB free Firmware: SM30 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52866120 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3517 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 77391390 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3596 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2404 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 488308765 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 62289 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 68719476765 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	64.5% Good	Read 109 Write 114 Mixed 110 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.55 4K Mixed 0.76 217% 2.34 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.8% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 24.9 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 21.9 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 71.9 56% 71.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 119%

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Typical Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69) Builds (Compare 512 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: MSI Z270M MORTAR (MS-7A69) - $128

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	182x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	112x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	69x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	45x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	33x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	17x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	15x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $654

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 $46

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