MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	93.4% 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	64.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161221
Uptime	10.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 14:09
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 84 1-Core 120 2-Core 258 84% 154 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 408 62% 447 Pts	64-Core 533 33% 533 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 125 Parallax 105 97% 116 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 105 Splatting 111 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 39GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4888 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 645 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 59 48 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5668942950	111% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 410 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 46.7 169% 59.6 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 112 139% 249 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2316RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8591 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1416 (A6) Unknown 100 100 14 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 319 (A9) Unknown 100 100 309 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 195 (AE) Unknown 100 100 72 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 131 562641436715 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1586 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 51111 (F1) Unknown 253 253 18777 (F2) Unknown 253 253 20036 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	64.2% Good	Read 378 Write 157 Mixed 216 55% 251 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 18.7 100% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 42.5 80% 163 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 99%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 626GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 9 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9100 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21406 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6399 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2702 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219043987492 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 368 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 21608	65% Good	Read 106 Write 120 Mixed 95.2 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.39 106% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 75%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 215GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 121 121 38685901274 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8380 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 18629 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4237 (C0) Power-off retract count 93 93 8631 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 8631 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 227633987627 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	44.8% Average	Read 82.9 Write 73.3 Mixed 80 59% 78.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.24 70% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	68.7% Good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 21.5 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 15.2 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 73.4 54% 73.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 80%

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Gaming 51%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $150

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	818x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	631x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	305x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	74x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	55x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	98x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	71x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $589

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