MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970)

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	70.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7970
Motherboard	MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970) (all builds)
Memory	26 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150910
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 16 '16 at 17:23
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	41%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 84.1 1-Core 118 2-Core 223 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 629 62% 507 Pts	64-Core 618 38% 618 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 149 Parallax 128 112% 138 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 131 Splatting 109 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 122GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13387823 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -125112397332439 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 37 90196738080 (C2) HDA temperature 32 37 90196738080 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13387823 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13387823 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13387823 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963478 (EA) Unknown 0 0 41 (F1) Unknown 0 0 41 (F2) Unknown 0 0 41 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1572881	70.2% Very good	Read 491 Write 214 Mixed 299 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 10.4 110% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 78.7 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 9.31 46% 100 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 84%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 718GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 141 3950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 14 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 63 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 92 (C2) HDA temperature 110 108 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0
Poor: 43% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 3,679 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 24.7 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 22.8 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 73.3 55% 73.3 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 115%

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

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Typical Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970) Builds (Compare 239 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 62%

Destroyer

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 49%

Yacht

Motherboard: MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970)

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	68x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	57x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	37x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	24x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	20x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	17x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
MX300 525GBCrucial $150Bench 86%, 105,037 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	10x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	7x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $482

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