MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71)

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 108%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	63.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.9% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7A71
Motherboard	MSI Z270-A PRO (MS-7A71) (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 18 '18 at 13:05
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^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 5.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 156 2-Core 319 104% 191 Pts	4-Core 639 8-Core 897 97% 768 Pts	64-Core 900 56% 900 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6163) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.4% Good	Lighting 79.2 Reflection 81.2 Parallax 70.4 64% 76.9 fps	MRender 73.1 Gravity 73.5 Splatting 77.1 61% 74.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 158GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6727 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4388 (B1) Unknown 96 96 131 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 771 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27145859063	75.9% Very good	Read 511 Write 390 Mixed 436 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 77.6 4K Mixed 16.4 100% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 82.6 DQ Mixed 70.1 49% 59.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 100 114213320 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 22 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 333474 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 22 (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 69 69 521928735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 89 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 85899345951 (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 -44263932952568 (F1) Unknown 100 253 999116050 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70735693
Poor: 63% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 2404120 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2783 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25908379864 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2420 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 538640416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 846 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 72 72 57888 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 60129542176 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 2684354566799 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41655832906 (F2) Unknown 100 253 52995697444
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 75241496 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5139 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 315529913 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5127 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032839 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 521928735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 756 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8811 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 47244640287 (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 37533719206724 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -93993209075800 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -118053561022974
Poor: 55% Great: 112%
Hds721010kla33r RSD HUA 1TB 966 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 901GB free Firmware: GKAOAG0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 151 (03) Spinup time 180 180 55852532215 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1166 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 134 134 32 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 58530 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 727 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1193 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1193 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 240519086117 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	46.9% Average	Read 80.3 Write 82.8 Mixed 79.5 61% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.5 128% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 47%
USB DISK 3.0 32GB 584 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 28GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	43.6% Average	Read 138 Write 75.9 Mixed 64.3 105% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 1.04 136% 6.98 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 859B BLS4G4D240FSA.M8FADM 859B BLS4G4D240FSA.M8FADM 16GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2754, 2754, 2754 MHz 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	54.4% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 18.3 MC Mixed 15.3 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 18.8 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 95%

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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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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