MSI MS-17A1

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	99.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	184% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star GT73VR 6RF
Motherboard	MSI MS-17A1 (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160811
Uptime	10.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 02 '17 at 20:41
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 125 2-Core 241 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 621 64% 513 Pts	64-Core 668 41% 668 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080 (Mobile) 17,197 User benchmarks, average bench 95% MSI(1462 11BB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.8% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 136 Parallax 122 104% 129 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 125 Splatting 102 91% 112 fps
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5128GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 2,421 User benchmarks, average bench 150% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57XA4104 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1,881 Write 558 Mixed 729 229% 1,056 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 54.8 193% 71.6 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 135 154% 264 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 279%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 885GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 155657788 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1207 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26674716 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -116561117445236 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 82 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 48 655687713 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1418 (C2) HDA temperature 33 52 90194313249 (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 134728829108950 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14331420781 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9751358934 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	45.9% Average	Read 80.2 Write 79.4 Mixed 66.8 57% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.57 127% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GB 20,148 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	71.3% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 21.5 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-17A1

CPU
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	258x
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	232x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	357x
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	307x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	19x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	122x
Raid 0 Volume 256GBIntelBench 120%, 13,747 samples	50x
THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 148%, 19,151 samples	44x

RAM
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 20,148 samples	157x
MSI24D4S7D8MB-16 2x16GBKingstonBench 77%, 1,520 samples	94x
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 4x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 831 samples	67x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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