MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 32% Sail boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	31.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 01:53
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 88 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 428 57% 427 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1656 MHz, MLim: 1852 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	31.5% Below average	Lighting 26.1 Reflection 70.4 Parallax 62.1 21% 52.9 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 63.4 Splatting 56 52% 63.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Z400s 128GB-$109 10,807 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 96GB free Firmware: Z2320000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 9 100 9 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 303 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 116 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 100 240518168617 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 16 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 452 (F1) Unknown 253 253 308 (F2) Unknown 253 253 614	60.9% Good	Read 496 Write 176 Mixed 258 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 99.9 4K Mixed 3.58 95% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 28.5 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 3.54 32% 69.1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 71%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 60490016 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 29 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2888832 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 249 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (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 68 63 538181664 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 614 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 81604378656 (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 108894600822941 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3958434004 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10406128945	86.9% Excellent	Read 133 Write 169 Mixed 121 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.6 191% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 684GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 63 0 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 709 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 236448059 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 707 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 538116127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 735 (C2) HDA temperature 31 12 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 1 0 (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 23532125821758 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40725145576 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34974184663	87.4% Excellent	Read 160 Write 145 Mixed 166 119% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.23 79% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$154 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	78.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 30 MC Mixed 25.8 80% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 30.3 SC Mixed 25.3 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 113%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	175x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	152x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x
Solid State Disk 128GBSpccBench 69%, 14,793 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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