MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	69.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A59
Motherboard	MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '17 at 19:43
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 144 2-Core 286 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 785 82% 656 Pts	64-Core 783 48% 783 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6181) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 79GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10720 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 167 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1167 (AD) Unknown 100 100 458780 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 100 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 93 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4023	84.9% Excellent	Read 519 Write 354 Mixed 350 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 9.78 106% 40.8 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 10 84% 198 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 101%
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 55GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10617 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 170 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 526 (AD) Unknown 100 100 524315 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 109 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 92 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5083	84.9% Excellent	Read 520 Write 349 Mixed 355 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 78.8 4K Mixed 10.5 107% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 9.93 84% 198 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 101%
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 43344810878943 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 687 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 683 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 104 104 8097810 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 683 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 573433 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 57 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 573433 (F2) Unknown 100 100 761171 (F9) Unknown 100 100 21832	69.9% Good	Read 493 Write 152 Mixed 232 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 13.1 130% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 37.7 DQ Write 154 DQ Mixed 45.4 50% 79.2 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 88%
WD Red 8TB (2016)-$180 4,231 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 7TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 112 (03) Spinup time 149 149 34388640183 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 153 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 784 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2203 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2203 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 150325231649 (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	86.4% Excellent	Read 145 Write 156 Mixed 157 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.42 112% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 68GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 77240975 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10884 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 155049088 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 36255 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 771 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098501 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 48 538837024 (C2) HDA temperature 32 52 47244640288 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 31 77240975 (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 91401199055826 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1069072926 (F2) Unknown 100 253 448276451	51.6% Above average	Read 92.7 Write 87.2 Mixed 85.7 67% 88.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.43 92% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.7% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 19.1 MC Mixed 14.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 22.5 SC Mixed 19.3 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 110%

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Motherboard: MSI Z270 SLI (MS-7A59)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	264x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	89x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	29x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	67x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	19x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	14x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $764

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