MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161221
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '17 at 15:51
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 108 2-Core 232 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 466 53% 413 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	63% Good	Lighting 81.1 Reflection 55.5 Parallax 101 66% 79.3 fps	MRender 57.1 Gravity 75.9 Splatting 72.8 57% 68.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Chronos 240GB-$99 690 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 609ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 14340116 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 139878494896429 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 41 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 38 54 85902884902 (C2) HDA temperature 38 54 85902884902 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14340116 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14340116 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14340116 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1196 (EA) Unknown 0 0 980 (F1) Unknown 0 0 980 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1114	76.5% Very good	Read 465 Write 230 Mixed 291 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 15 116% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 73.5 100% 184 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 91%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 233GB free Firmware: 0001SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 225367680 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6683 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 147878308 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11546 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3723 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032913 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 367 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 21 21 158968 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 47244640286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 46 225367680 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	36.6% Below average	Read 65.2 Write 62.3 Mixed 56.3 46% 61.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.28 64% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 43%

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 @ 3001 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 40 MC Mixed 33.3 104% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 27.3 83% 29 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971) - $180

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	906x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	688x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	276x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	394x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	380x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	131x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	66x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	61x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	117x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	95x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $524

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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