MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	49.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 15:44
Run Duration	479 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (44^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 93 1-Core 145 2-Core 282 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 354 8-Core 530 55% 442 Pts	64-Core 608 38% 608 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 454GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	95.9% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 187 Mixed 282 48% 213 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 50.9 196% 78.5 MB/s	DQ Read 405 DQ Write 382 DQ Mixed 153 181% 313 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 144%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 99GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 110 36100637 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -5927054831327 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 99 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 36100637 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 36100637 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 36100637 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1908 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1854 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1854 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2625	53.9% Above average	Read 200 Write 125 Mixed 142 34% 156 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 12.3 113% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 38.9 57% 107 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 61%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 204062860 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -13743895309988 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 156 (B1) Unknown 0 0 13 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 10 10 90 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 204062860 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 204062860 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 204062860 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 29159 (EA) Unknown 0 0 32192 (F1) Unknown 0 0 32192 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17485	49.5% Average	Read 196 Write 111 Mixed 129 32% 145 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 11.9 103% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 133 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 34 49% 91.8 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 61%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 27GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 196 Mixed 355 54% 240 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 149 4K Mixed 51.7 196% 78.2 MB/s	DQ Read 474 DQ Write 466 DQ Mixed 171 211% 370 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 144%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 149 149 11525 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 29 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11290 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (10) Unknown 1 199 27573355693 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 21 (C2) HDA temperature 119 108 33 (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	85.2% Excellent	Read 144 Write 152 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 3.24 4K Mixed 0.34 138% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3264 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 32.1 103% 36.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 22 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 110%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,671x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	364x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	360x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

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