MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	51.2% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	58% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

CPU throttled at 92% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 03 '17 at 00:19
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%
CPU Throttled	92%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	78.6% Very good	Memory 93.5 1-Core 112 2-Core 192 78% 133 Pts	4-Core 344 8-Core 595 57% 469 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.2% Above average	Lighting 65.5 Reflection 65.6 Parallax 57.7 53% 62.9 fps	MRender 66.5 Gravity 58.6 Splatting 50.3 47% 58.5 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 196GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 377 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 64 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 75 66 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2548378565	81.8% Excellent	Read 492 Write 396 Mixed 413 97% 434 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 42.4 4K Mixed 28.8 110% 35 MB/s	DQ Read 106 DQ Write 80.3 DQ Mixed 43.8 46% 76.8 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 134%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.06 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 107 16840455 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -32255204383293 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1413 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 80 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 35 2293785 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16840455 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16840455 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16840455 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3076 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3285 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3285 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2101	58% Above average	Read 477 Write 171 Mixed 221 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 19.5 4K Write 52.2 4K Mixed 16.9 79% 29.6 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 48.8 53% 89.4 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 83%
WD WD1502FYPS-01U1B1 1.5TB 643 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1.5TB free Firmware: 04.01G01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 235 9316 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5061 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 15166 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2095 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 65793 (C2) HDA temperature 127 104 25 (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	61.4% Good	Read 112 Write 102 Mixed 97.9 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.31 103% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 61%
WD WD15EZRX-00DC0B0 1.5TB 1,212 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 170 4141 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5398 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1561 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 106618 (C2) HDA temperature 123 111 24 (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	75.5% Very good	Read 130 Write 133 Mixed 131 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.25 112% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.8% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 20.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 19.8 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 104%

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Typical Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) Builds (Compare 4,891 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,453x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,152x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $601

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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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