MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.62% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	143% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160724
Uptime	23 Days
Run Date	May 06 '17 at 22:15
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 84.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 86% 156 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 706 76% 605 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7A12) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.62% Terrible	Lighting 8.03 Reflection 12.1 Parallax 7.91 6% 9.34 fps	MRender 10.3 Gravity 6.9 Splatting 16.5 10% 11.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.62% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Patriot Hellfire NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$233 2,120 User benchmarks, average bench 142% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 1,963 Write 180 Mixed 350 177% 831 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 99.9 4K Mixed 24.6 128% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 520 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 59.6 121% 255 MB/s
Poor: 97% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 195%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 759GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 203880708 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 341 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2607624 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1870 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 242 (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 71 67 504627229 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 343 (C2) HDA temperature 29 13 55834574877 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 203880708 (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 97298189125334 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1838695853 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1475247311	97.3% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 166 Mixed 153 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.27 91% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3600 C17 4x4GB 562 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.5% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 23 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 122%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) Builds (Compare 2,753 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,429x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	626x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	528x
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 $130Bench 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 $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