MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71)

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	130% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.5% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A71
Motherboard	MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170407
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 18 '17 at 16:35
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 70.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 294 84% 162 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 527 65% 494 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2927 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 205 Parallax 204 148% 197 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 181 Splatting 124 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 40938748 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -42691974912631 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1758 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 112 (B1) Unknown 0 0 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 41 38657392672 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 38657392672 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 40938748 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 40938748 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 40938748 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22530 (EA) Unknown 0 0 21036 (F1) Unknown 0 0 21036 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27375	76.5% Very good	Read 479 Write 227 Mixed 234 69% 313 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 17.8 117% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 203 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 53.9 86% 164 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 19522432 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 46411 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (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 70 67 521535518 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 60 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 90194313246 (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 4140348473351 (F1) Unknown 100 253 760002353 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7794719	99.3% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 177 Mixed 159 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3400820AS 400GB 872 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 20GB free Firmware: 3.AAD 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 108 89 15054305 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9871 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1740153066711 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18679 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5986 (BB) vendor-specific 85 85 15 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 49 588709922 (C2) HDA temperature 34 51 38654705698 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 56 207781577 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	23.8% Poor	Read 41.2 Write 41.4 Mixed 38.8 30% 40.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.25 60% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 23.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT4G4DFS824A.C8FBD2 4x4GB 250 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.5% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.2 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 12.6 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 99.9 40% 99.9 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 102%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) - $114

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	2,814x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,197x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	517x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	958x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	862x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	813x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	270x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	207x
Green 240GB (2016)WDBench 53%, 20,831 samples	183x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	386x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	223x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	219x

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Total price: $899

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