MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78)

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	39.7% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	99.8% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A78
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 15:50
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 252 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 710 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 470-$126 94,030 User benchmarks, average bench 40% Asus(1043 04B0) CLim: 1250 MHz, MLim: 1650 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.3.2 Performing below potential (56^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	39.7% Below average	Lighting 46.2 Reflection 61.9 Parallax 63.9 38% 57.3 fps	MRender 61.8 Gravity 47 Splatting 51.9 44% 53.6 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 447GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 728 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 431 (A5) Unknown 100 100 11272299 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 59 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 623 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 51 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 65 279174512676 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 128849018910 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 270 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2200 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1772 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2913 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.8% Good	Read 498 Write 351 Mixed 336 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 34.6 4K Mixed 14.7 76% 24.9 MB/s	DQ Read 76.9 DQ Write 63.1 DQ Mixed 29.7 33% 56.6 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 108%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35200WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Read 1,471 Write 286 Mixed 443 158% 733 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 35.9 4K Mixed 8.56 71% 23.8 MB/s	DQ Read 89.9 DQ Write 62.8 DQ Mixed 32 36% 61.6 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 155%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 64GB 1,117 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 58GB free Firmware: X211200 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3644 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1735 (A7) Unknown 100 100 15 (A8) Unknown 100 100 266 (A9) Unknown 100 100 75 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 146 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 63 270583070758 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1110 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1110 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9028675096 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12211313982 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	49% Average	Read 397 Write 143 Mixed 204 54% 248 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 46.8 4K Mixed 9.81 71% 26.3 MB/s	DQ Read 91.6 DQ Write 91.5 DQ Mixed 39.2 44% 74.1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 81%
Samsung Spinpoint T166 500GB-$40 43,024 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 343GB free Firmware: CR100-13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 96 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5760 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9324 (05) Reallocated sector count 82 82 170 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9950 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3586 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 443917 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 7472314 (BC) Unknown 99 99 146 (BE) vendor-specific 60 40 40 (C2) HDA temperature 118 58 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 443917 (C4) Reallocation count 82 82 170 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 92 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 94 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 1	25.1% Poor	Read 42.1 Write 45.2 Mixed 39.4 32% 42.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.34 81% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 25.1% Great: 44%
Samsung HD322HJ 320GB-$44 40,147 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 185GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3130 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6270 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10015 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3659 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 43 572588066 (C2) HDA temperature 64 40 975563718692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 177389 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	36.9% Below average	Read 63.6 Write 64.8 Mixed 60.4 47% 62.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.45 106% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 38.6 MC Write 41.4 MC Mixed 32.3 107% 37.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 44.8 SC Mixed 30.3 92% 32.2 GB/s	Latency 52.6 76% 52.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 GAMING M5 (MS-7A78) - $500

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,124x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	303x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	115x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	321x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	255x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	231x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	94x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	84x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	63x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	114x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	66x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $161Bench 85%, 35,811 samples	38x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,060

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16