MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	64.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.3% 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.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A63
Motherboard	MSI Z270 GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A63) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170207
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 17 '17 at 23:04
Run Duration	232 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 139 2-Core 262 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 640 67% 539 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Lighting 82.2 Reflection 79.9 Parallax 69.1 67% 77.1 fps	MRender 72.7 Gravity 73.6 Splatting 74.2 60% 73.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 525GB-$140 20,154 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 147GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^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 4602 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 56 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 23 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 37 270583791654 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9632752727 (F7) Unknown 100 100 304905611 (F8) Unknown 100 100 172578818 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1939 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	74.3% Very good	Read 481 Write 330 Mixed 338 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 14.7 102% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 27.9 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 14.8 44% 88 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 98%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 177 6025 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2813 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18944 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 221 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 31478 (C2) HDA temperature 122 109 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	84.4% Excellent	Read 153 Write 141 Mixed 125 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.22 88% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 83%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 479GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 170 166 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11566 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 30 30 51492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 596 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 304 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 148897 (C2) HDA temperature 122 110 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 34 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.4% Good	Read 111 Write 103 Mixed 63.9 69% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.2 76% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 67%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 448GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 149 147 9516 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10347 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 36055 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 172 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 159 159 123922 (C2) HDA temperature 122 104 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 11 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	65.5% Good	Read 141 Write 87 Mixed 97.3 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 277GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 191289512 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10356 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9159602 (09) Power-on hours count 35 11 57163 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 653 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 120260919334 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 61 487915549 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 146 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10619 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 6 191289512 (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 93711891455745 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3556583245 (F2) Unknown 100 253 795290516	51.8% Above average	Read 104 Write 76.3 Mixed 72.8 63% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.32 60% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 258GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 1714 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4308 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7810 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 4 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 139 139 183312 (C2) HDA temperature 119 106 28 (C4) Reallocation count 196 196 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 158 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 8 (C8) Write error rate 200 191 44	67.6% Good	Read 112 Write 123 Mixed 111 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.23 94% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.6% Good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 20.7 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 8.4 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 15.3 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 104%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,282x
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	875x
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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	244x
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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	215x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	132x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $960

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 $52

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