MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	231% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '17 at 16:58
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 as expected (54^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 81.6 1-Core 140 2-Core 272 90% 165 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 774 77% 628 Pts	64-Core 775 48% 775 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-Ti-$410 30,815 User benchmarks, average bench 53% Zotac(19DA 1314) 3GB CLim: 1479 MHz, MLim: 1839 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 378.92 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 6.73 Reflection 31 Parallax 35.1 6% 24.3 fps	Gravity 39.2 Splatting 24.1 27% 31.7 fps
Poor: 47% Great: 59%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW25L0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2149 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 706 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 25 (AE) Unknown 99 99 39 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 955 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 38 39 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 6400 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2810 (F2) Unknown 99 99 2165	231% Outstanding	Read 1,951 Write 1,167 Mixed 1,431 336% 1,516 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 51.5 201% 74.7 MB/s	DQ Read 584 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 222 231% 385 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 231% Great: 220%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 55GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4480570 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 60 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 133633612457465 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2751 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1162 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 62476 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4480570 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 60 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4480570 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4480570 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 24173 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20436 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20436 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14495	72.9% Very good	Read 510 Write 156 Mixed 207 63% 291 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 15 127% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 39.4 60% 115 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 82%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 510GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 69 (03) Spinup time 133 133 30093017516 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3097 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6542 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2158 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3097 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3097 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 219043921939 (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	92.9% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 153 Mixed 165 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.18 75% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 107%
WD WD5000AVVS-63H0B1 500GB 11,411 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 299GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 145 3650 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4427 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7772 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1642 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 268 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 167 167 99428 (C2) HDA temperature 124 95 19 (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	50.4% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 81 Mixed 79 64% 84.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.46 106% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.3 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 30.6 SC Mixed 24 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 77.6 52% 77.6 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 106%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,294x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	903x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	330x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	879x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	743x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	588x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	272x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	245x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	159x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	520x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	215x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	132x

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Total price: $948

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 $179	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