MSI Z370M MORTAR (MS-7B54)

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B54
Motherboard	MSI Z370M MORTAR (MS-7B54) (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171228
Uptime	7 Days
Run Date	Jun 06 '18 at 03:22
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 746 78% 627 Pts	64-Core 776 48% 776 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 101%

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: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Lighting 79.7 Reflection 78.5 Parallax 66.1 65% 74.8 fps	MRender 70.2 Gravity 70.6 Splatting 73.1 59% 71.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 436GB free Firmware: B35900WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	139% Outstanding	Read 1,557 Write 530 Mixed 680 201% 922 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 80.5 4K Mixed 18.3 127% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 42.7 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 43.9 74% 134 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 155%
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$40 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 72GB free Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 10500 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (A5) Unknown 100 100 270591787136 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 29 304942678062 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 180390920234 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1190 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2409 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1558 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5048 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79.1% Very good	Read 506 Write 365 Mixed 432 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 99.7 4K Mixed 5.36 98% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 5.81 62% 144 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 76%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 107794894 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 -56719338072315 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 138 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 105 (B1) Unknown 0 0 10 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 107794894 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 107794894 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 107794894 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27022 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12002 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12002 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11861	50.4% Above average	Read 198 Write 110 Mixed 118 31% 142 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 12.9 106% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 29.9 47% 90.3 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 61%
WD WD1001FAES-60Z2A0 1TB 11,642 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 509GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 168 4291 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 23396 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 44506 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1290 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23339 (C2) HDA temperature 117 95 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 65 65 26169 (F1) Unknown 200 200 11183944528 (F2) Unknown 200 200 15213691825	61.3% Good	Read 117 Write 97 Mixed 103 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.34 98% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 75%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 292GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 160 156 7000 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11883 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 75978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 292 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11881 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 34 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.2% Average	Read 73.5 Write 66.5 Mixed 57.8 49% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.26 78% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3000 C15 Series 2x8GB 2,539 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 36.8 MC Mixed 27.9 98% 34.2 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 34.5 SC Mixed 29.5 81% 28.3 GB/s	Latency 53.6 75% 53.6 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 103%

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Gaming 54%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z370M MORTAR (MS-7B54)

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	329x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	295x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	172x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	127x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	98x

SSD
600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBIntel $49Bench 116%, 58,154 samples	64x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $150Bench 336%, 200,600 samples	34x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	33x

RAM
M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 74%, 24,860 samples	72x
MSI24D4U7S8MH-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 73%, 1,032 samples	55x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 80%, 29,586 samples	50x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $352

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