MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 26 '17 at 13:41
Run Duration	245 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 685 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 104 87% 106 fps	MRender 93 Gravity 95.3 Splatting 95.4 78% 94.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 359GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 6 (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 62 61 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 311340943	118% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 411 Mixed 412 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 98.8 4K Mixed 50 187% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 129 151% 263 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 1GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 28579 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 643 (B1) Unknown 70 70 362 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 48 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 2611731 (EB) Unknown 99 99 319 (F1) Unknown 99 99 125291305254	96.5% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 349 Mixed 352 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 77.7 4K Mixed 26.3 141% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 79.9 119% 227 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 118%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 833GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 174 8000 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3875 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 27966 (C2) HDA temperature 119 110 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	50.1% Above average	Read 91.2 Write 83.3 Mixed 76.8 63% 83.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 620GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 180 7866 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1379 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6910 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 53 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18701 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	77.5% Very good	Read 127 Write 143 Mixed 130 101% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.25 103% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 79GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 181 7708 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5561 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 24855 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 192 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 41603 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68% Good	Read 124 Write 112 Mixed 114 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.28 112% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 52GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 170921536 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2672 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4406669699 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16069 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 152 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 5 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 572456993 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 47 47 107881 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 73014444065 (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 106631153064031 (F1) Unknown 100 253 57010794323 (F2) Unknown 100 253 897425714631	82.5% Excellent	Read 162 Write 126 Mixed 148 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.17 63% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 114%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 45GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 182 7750 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2367 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 150 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 77 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 37694 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 36 (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	62.3% Good	Read 115 Write 102 Mixed 103 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.23 91% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 22.9 74% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 24.2 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 85%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	175x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	152x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x
Solid State Disk 128GBSpccBench 69%, 14,793 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

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