MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48)

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 91.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% 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	36.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B48
Motherboard	MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '18 at 14:17
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8500-$172 43,089 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Memory 93 1-Core 129 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 646 73% 570 Pts	64-Core 680 42% 680 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 146 Parallax 139 110% 140 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 129 Splatting 105 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 120GB (2018)-$59 69,933 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: UE300000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (A5) Unknown 100 100 55 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 115 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 52 223339741224 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 64425820175 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 105 (EA) Unknown 100 100 311 (F1) Unknown 100 100 131 (F2) Unknown 100 100 118 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	36.9% Below average	Read 484 Write 50.6 Mixed 36.1 40% 190 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 17.4 4K Mixed 2.44 44% 13.6 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 0.8 DQ Mixed 1.61 14% 36.9 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 53%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 23GB free Firmware: V2.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3081 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 587 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 107070 (A5) Unknown 100 100 273 (A6) Unknown 100 100 10 (A7) Unknown 100 100 55 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6421 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5046 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	72.5% Very good	Read 494 Write 389 Mixed 433 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 3.75 90% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 5.13 33% 71.8 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 558GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 42691346 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1225685 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (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 58 57 706412586 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 42 26 111669149738 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 42691346 (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 -26139170963442 (F1) Unknown 100 253 798429561 (F2) Unknown 100 253 826046786	100% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 171 Mixed 143 123% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.3 108% 1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 113%
BUFFALO HD-PCTU3 500GB 583 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 72GB free, PID 01de Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	16.6% Very poor	Read 34.2 Write 33.3 Mixed 33.1 43% 33.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.24 57% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.6% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 21.7 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.7 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 80%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO (MS-7B48) - $102

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,247x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	3,007x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	1,823x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,539x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,367x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	1,205x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	691x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	479x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	354x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	754x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	391x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	321x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $528

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 $177	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