MSI Z170A GAMING M9 ACK (MS-7966)

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	106% 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	237% 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	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.

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System	MSI MS-7966
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M9 ACK (MS-7966) (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170503
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 27 '17 at 19:24
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	100%

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PC Performing as expected (54^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Memory 58.9 1-Core 94.1 2-Core 194 63% 116 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 784 70% 594 Pts	64-Core 812 50% 812 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 67.1% 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: 382.33 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 146 Parallax 139 112% 141 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 133 Splatting 108 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 386GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 2,101 Write 1,453 Mixed 1,456 370% 1,670 MB/s	4K Read 48.7 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 33.1 193% 75.6 MB/s	DQ Read 50.1 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 32.2 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 283%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16450512 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1020 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6132383 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1071 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1117 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1769500 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 52 606011428 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 114 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2913 (C2) HDA temperature 36 48 77309411364 (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 -14276471290922 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6588348934 (F2) Unknown 100 253 116998742807	61.6% Good	Read 93.5 Write 120 Mixed 96.1 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 4.91 4K Mixed 0.56 183% 2.06 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 94%
ASMT 2105 2TB 569 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free, PID 55aa Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Read 191 Write 166 Mixed 124 198% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 5.45 4K Mixed 0.62 209% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 73%
USB DISK 3.0 32GB 1,909 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 17GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Read 238 Write 79.4 Mixed 72.8 134% 130 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.05 73% 6.43 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB-$140 4,858 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	70.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 30.8 MC Mixed 25.2 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.1 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 9.4 33% 11.4 GB/s	Latency 131 30% 131 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 120%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M9 ACK (MS-7966)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	121x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	15x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	6x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	29x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x
RX Vega-64AMD $400Bench 87%, 91,676 samples	13x

SSD
Black SN750 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB (2019)WD $74Bench 277%, 114,373 samples	15x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	8x
840 Evo 120GBSamsung $85Bench 91%, 104,444 samples	7x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	13x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 105%, 785 samples	12x
KF3200C16D4/8GX 2x8GBKingstonBench 88%, 58,684 samples	6x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $697

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