MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.5% 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	66.1% 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.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	14.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160511
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '16 at 17:28
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 118 2-Core 234 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 653 69% 551 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36E6) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.5% Very good	Lighting 103 Reflection 104 Parallax 93.5 84% 100 fps	MRender 89 Gravity 89.7 Splatting 81.2 70% 86.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1204A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 96 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 141 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 145 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 10 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13008 (A5) Unknown 100 100 15 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 312 (F1) Unknown 100 100 29592 (F2) Unknown 100 100 27370 (F5) Unknown 100 100 41222	66.1% Good	Read 494 Write 288 Mixed 353 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 3.63 93% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 20.7 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 3.57 23% 49.3 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 292GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 143441120 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 327 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 48957062 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1841 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 55835426829 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 57 723386407 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6778 (C2) HDA temperature 39 43 77309411367 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 182 638 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -99784975186367 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13909478601 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23689220878	87.2% Excellent	Read 172 Write 132 Mixed 132 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.21 68% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 114%
ADATA NH13 750GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 216GB free, PID a13a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	28.6% Poor	Read 78.6 Write 62.5 Mixed 53.2 79% 64.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.15 45% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 28.6% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-2133 2x8GB 1,572 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	76.2% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 23.5 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 24.6 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 64.6 62% 64.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 81%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 48%

Yacht

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

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	905x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	683x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	276x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	393x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	379x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	180x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	130x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	65x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	61x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	117x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	94x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $533

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