MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	200% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161222
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '17 at 22:23
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 113 2-Core 212 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 530 58% 457 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.7% Good	Lighting 79.1 Reflection 76.5 Parallax 66.3 64% 74 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 72.1 Splatting 73 59% 72.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 21,747 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	200% Outstanding	Read 2,270 Write 835 Mixed 1,161 311% 1,422 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 29.6 165% 62.6 MB/s	DQ Read 44.5 DQ Write 376 DQ Mixed 30 77% 150 MB/s
Poor: 134% ↑ This bench: 200% Great: 292%
Samsung HD153WI 1TB 563GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 17 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 8070 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 4987 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 9776 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 52587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 816 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3468 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 17 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 22189 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 52 403374104 (C2) HDA temperature 73 45 453705755 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 251683 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	48.7% Average	Read 83 Write 86.3 Mixed 92.3 66% 87.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.48 123% 1.1 MB/s

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 25.7 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 20.3 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 104%

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Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 40%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	393x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	308x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	104x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	87x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	64x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	40x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	35x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $525

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