MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 90% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 92.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	112% 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	80% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	20.6 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 30 '17 at 00:23
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	Memory 93.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 732 76% 610 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 151 Parallax 132 123% 144 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 144 Splatting 113 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 960GB-$190 3,375 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 873GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3225 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 487 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C2) HDA temperature 66 49 219044577314 (F1) Unknown 100 100 178302	81.5% Excellent	Read 518 Write 355 Mixed 350 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 67.1 4K Mixed 9.88 94% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 45.5 97% 202 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 103%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 233GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 355 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 867 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 67 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 70428 (A5) Unknown 100 100 125 (A6) Unknown 100 100 26 (A7) Unknown 100 100 67 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 255 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 15273 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 414267 (F2) Unknown 100 100 180905 (F5) Unknown 100 100 563424	102% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 371 Mixed 430 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 38.2 148% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 72.8 116% 221 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 103%
OCZ Trion 150 120GB-$50 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3345 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 516 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 184 184 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 71 (C2) HDA temperature 63 54 197569675301 (F1) Unknown 100 100 649473	80% Very good	Read 517 Write 331 Mixed 342 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 66.5 4K Mixed 9.74 94% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 43.7 98% 205 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 89%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 173 2091 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1901 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4505 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 882 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 140 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1762 (C2) HDA temperature 110 101 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	108% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 197 Mixed 166 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.77 4K Mixed 0.36 145% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 3x8GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 25.5 82% 28.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 33.3 SC Mixed 26 75% 26.1 GB/s	Latency 60.2 66% 60.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 85%

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Gaming 86%

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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	361x
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 $125	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