MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	75.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

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System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '17 at 17:06
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 88.7 1-Core 115 2-Core 224 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 644 63% 515 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 80%

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: 388.13 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 152 Parallax 142 113% 144 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 138 Splatting 113 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 68GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7820 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1814 (B1) Unknown 97 97 43 (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 71 52 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 79 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19799916040	107% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 399 Mixed 412 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 76.5 4K Mixed 41.9 157% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 111 137% 245 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 60GB free Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11679 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3177 (B1) Unknown 93 93 83 (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 74 59 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1841 (EB) Unknown 99 99 260 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17020743806	63.4% Good	Read 501 Write 130 Mixed 189 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 77.3 4K Mixed 8.57 92% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 27.4 70% 152 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 73%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 243 100 499 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1332 (A6) Unknown 100 100 760 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 812 (A9) Unknown 100 100 21 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 794 (AE) Unknown 100 100 129 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 100 240518168616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 26 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 168367 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9858 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16402	75.3% Very good	Read 460 Write 355 Mixed 402 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 85.2 4K Mixed 4.02 91% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 26.7 77% 165 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 86%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 691GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 100 3490352 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 5591 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 67 437714970 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 73014444058 (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 -68929930133503 (F1) Unknown 100 253 530742081 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4296026	81.7% Excellent	Read 115 Write 169 Mixed 129 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.47 4K Mixed 1 244% 2.41 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 112%
Intenso USB 3.0 Device 2TB 660 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Read 167 Write 143 Mixed 116 176% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.4 4K Mixed 0.35 198% 2.17 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 4x8GB-$165 6,271 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.1% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 23.2 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 23.6 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 113%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	222x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	73x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	61x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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