MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	41% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	45% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151216
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 26 '17 at 09:46
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 (99^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 209 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 592 61% 492 Pts	64-Core 632 39% 632 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 380X-$120 20,573 User benchmarks, average bench 38% Sapphire(174B E308) CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	41% Average	Lighting 52.4 Reflection 53.3 Parallax 62 43% 55.9 fps	MRender 52.5 Gravity 47.9 Splatting 40.1 38% 46.8 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 40%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 757GB 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 99 145 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 18 (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 64 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 681162226	106% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 394 Mixed 406 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 93 4K Mixed 48.8 181% 62.5 MB/s	DQ Read 47.5 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 121 98% 131 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 133%
Intel 730 Series 240GB-$250 8,417 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 221GB free Firmware: L2010410 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13716 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1152 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 168 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4328063612 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 70 521601052 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 168 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 111173 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 97 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 505 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 111173 (F2) Unknown 100 100 243636	89.1% Excellent	Read 491 Write 282 Mixed 354 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 29.3 143% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 109 108% 180 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 95%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 12660156 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 25 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 14010183344818 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2070 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 372 (B1) Unknown 0 0 12 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 1090 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12660156 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 25 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12660156 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12660156 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16201 (EA) Unknown 0 0 21234 (F1) Unknown 0 0 21234 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12830	45% Average	Read 178 Write 102 Mixed 127 30% 136 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 11.8 95% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 94.5 DQ Mixed 9.3 32% 69.5 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 61%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 592GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 127 3983 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9221 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25137 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1964 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 252 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 132 132 205728 (C2) HDA temperature 113 90 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 21291 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.6% Above average	Read 95.3 Write 91.4 Mixed 85.2 68% 90.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.17 67% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 83GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51271712 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6739 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 8614802918 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18937 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1592 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 538509344 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 229 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 61 61 78041 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 34359738400 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 199 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -123080877793669 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17676145582 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28909429100	63.2% Good	Read 116 Write 104 Mixed 112 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.22 54% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 2,787 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	78.2% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 24.4 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 21.9 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 103%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	554x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	73x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	61x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

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