MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	85.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	22.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160512
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '17 at 17:57
Run Duration	275 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	18%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 82.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 251 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 678 71% 568 Pts	64-Core 680 42% 680 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.6% 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: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 147 Parallax 141 114% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 139 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 398GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 92 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 16 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 62 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 584382288	85.6% Excellent	Read 485 Write 266 Mixed 273 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 30 130% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 68.7 98% 187 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 123%
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 83GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 807 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 41 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12891390027 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 39 167504838691 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 150326476840 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 160 (EA) Unknown 100 100 305 (F1) Unknown 253 253 258 (F2) Unknown 253 253 176 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.9% Very good	Read 447 Write 216 Mixed 239 66% 301 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 71.8 4K Mixed 21 113% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 41.8 83% 171 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 93%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6790 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 15 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 92 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 16 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 180389740582 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 91 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 550 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	98.4% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 170 Mixed 169 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 4.79 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.31 273% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 104%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 861GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6988 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 149 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 6502 (0A) Spinup retry count 102 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 72 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 78 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 149 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 253404119082 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 84 84 6422 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 207 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	81% Excellent	Read 144 Write 139 Mixed 136 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.31 113% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 104%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 16GB 60,539 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 7GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	16.6% Very poor	Read 35.6 Write 9.21 Mixed 12.4 19% 19.1 MB/s	4K Read 5.02 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 1.51 162% 3.08 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 16.6% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF1G64AZ-2G1A2 4x8GB 671 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.2% Very good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.6 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 23.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 76.4 52% 76.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 111%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,434x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	628x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	530x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	327x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	126x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	129x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	88x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	85x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $577

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 $176	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