MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 128% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	126% 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	97.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160512
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 06 '18 at 10:30
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	SVK-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 147 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 559 8-Core 797 85% 678 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1474) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 195 Parallax 189 141% 186 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 172 Splatting 126 115% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 145GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3482 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 470 (B1) Unknown 95 95 25 (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 65 52 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7806847138	91.3% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 276 Mixed 281 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 42.8 4K Write 70.9 4K Mixed 30.9 142% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 69.4 107% 207 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 114%
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2117 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 284 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4200853122	92.4% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 270 Mixed 275 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 70.6 4K Mixed 33 147% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 70.5 107% 208 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 123%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 25GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10012 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2063 (B1) Unknown 88 88 142 (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 67 47 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 27 (EB) Unknown 99 99 370 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29280396916	97.2% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 352 Mixed 339 88% 395 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 82.4 4K Mixed 25.3 145% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 68.1 114% 225 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$75 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 872GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 44788696 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1915 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 71613802 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7361 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1330 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 73 55 454557723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48543 (C2) HDA temperature 27 45 55834574875 (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 93157840655028 (F1) Unknown 100 253 64919424499 (F2) Unknown 100 253 247862578916	58.5% Above average	Read 102 Write 102 Mixed 151 90% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.17 77% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 113%
Hitachi HTS545050KTSA00 500GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 27GB free Firmware: BKFOC60J Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 149 149 60129542145 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 6704 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 16687 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 4268 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 204205 (C2) HDA temperature 196 196 231928954908 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	31.9% Below average	Read 53.8 Write 57.2 Mixed 52.2 41% 54.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.83 4K Mixed 0.22 54% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 32%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 750GB-$60 30,974 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 21GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8340 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 7723 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9580 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17692 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5029 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 83 48 286326801 (C2) HDA temperature 78 45 4665180182 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 78707 (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 38 9722 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	62.2% Good	Read 106 Write 110 Mixed 87.9 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.4 108% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$39 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 42.4 MC Mixed 32.2 107% 37.4 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 43.7 SC Mixed 32.8 95% 33.2 GB/s	Latency 50.7 79% 50.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,463x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	634x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	538x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	331x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	313x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	128x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	120x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	130x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	89x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	88x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
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