MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 122% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 107% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	127% 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	79.5% 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-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	14.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 10 '16 at 00:18
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (52^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 147 2-Core 267 96% 170 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 815 80% 657 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	127% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 195 Parallax 189 143% 186 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 169 Splatting 130 115% 141 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 466GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 269 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 104 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 60 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25012448	107% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 75.2 4K Mixed 44.5 152% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 390 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 134 156% 271 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 134%
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 418GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 121 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 32 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 294578926	81% Excellent	Read 474 Write 264 Mixed 276 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 27.4 110% 35.1 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 70.8 108% 210 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 123%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 222GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 387 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 139 (B1) Unknown 98 98 9 (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 63 45 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3086625170	80.1% Excellent	Read 480 Write 269 Mixed 279 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 27 106% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 70.7 108% 210 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 114%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 121 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 32 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 63 51 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1051252990	79.5% Very good	Read 483 Write 268 Mixed 276 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 31.5 4K Write 43.5 4K Mixed 25.6 104% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 75.6 111% 212 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 647GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 66 66 5001474 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 214 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 489330 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 389 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 137 (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 75 65 521207833 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 214 (C2) HDA temperature 25 17 73014444057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 3 5001474 (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 -100304666230467 (F1) Unknown 100 253 788084090 (F2) Unknown 100 253 110556268	94.8% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 158 Mixed 135 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.33 110% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 15,285 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 38.5 MC Write 42.8 MC Mixed 33 109% 38.1 GB/s	SC Read 24.3 SC Write 45.8 SC Mixed 33.1 98% 34.4 GB/s	Latency 47.6 84% 47.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) Builds (Compare 2,755 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,430x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	627x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	529x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	326x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	308x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	126x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	129x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	88x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	85x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $592

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