MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	93% 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	105% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171120
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 13:06
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	48%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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-$120 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 92.2 1-Core 145 2-Core 289 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 576 8-Core 575 77% 576 Pts	64-Core 570 35% 570 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3773) ≥ 4GB; Gigabyte windforce oc 8G CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2152 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 122 Parallax 116 96% 119 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 107 Splatting 108 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 111GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 9154 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4522 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1000 (64) Unknown 100 100 3082240 (65) Unknown 100 100 756608 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 278 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 467 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2762 (B7) Unknown 100 100 9 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 41 100 223339282473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 9154 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 9154 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5218 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3914 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4609 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13314 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 9154	65.9% Good	Read 469 Write 267 Mixed 143 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 59.6 4K Mixed 9.46 89% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 28.4 49% 96.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 92%
ST1000DM003-9YN162 240GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2386 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1645 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 24 (A3) Unknown 100 100 388 (94) Unknown 100 100 930829 (95) Unknown 100 100 13144 (96) Unknown 100 100 12997 (97) Unknown 100 100 13110 (A4) Unknown 100 100 325182 (A5) Unknown 100 100 302 (A6) Unknown 100 100 201 (A7) Unknown 100 100 254 (A9) Unknown 100 100 75 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 194 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 57390195474474 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1577505 (F2) Unknown 100 100 740182 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1920606 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1861658 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	105% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 478 Mixed 500 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 30.3 144% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 73.2 112% 210 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 89GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 63 0 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1844 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22631694 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1608 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 56 56 44 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 571998242 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1857 (C2) HDA temperature 34 11 47244640290 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 1 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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 96117073123210 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11158360436 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9930982677	62.3% Good	Read 109 Write 108 Mixed 97 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.3 81% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT4G4DFS8213.C8FAD11 859B BLS4G4D240FSA.8FADG 859B CT4G4DFS8213.C8FAD11 859B BLS4G4D240FSA.8FADG 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 25 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 20.7 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 79%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) - $175

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $232Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,348x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	917x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	336x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	891x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	755x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	593x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	280x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	247x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	164x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	533x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	217x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	134x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $752

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