MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	113% 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-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	7.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '17 at 23:10
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 (97^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 92.8 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 700 73% 587 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.53 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 110 Reflection 115 Parallax 104 90% 110 fps	Gravity 101 Splatting 90.1 84% 95.6 fps
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 204GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4097 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 448 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 61 51 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20148850225	113% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 401 Mixed 411 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 85.1 4K Mixed 48.2 175% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 129 148% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 150GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -82119773788218 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2294 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 199 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 163419 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 163419 (F2) Unknown 100 100 343296 (F9) Unknown 100 100 7083	73.8% Very good	Read 488 Write 158 Mixed 235 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 97.5 4K Mixed 18.8 126% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 65.4 81% 142 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 83%
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 66GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4410607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 18013092852801 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1676 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 15 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 79 77314588702 (C2) HDA temperature 30 79 77314588702 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4410607 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4410607 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4410607 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2572 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2610 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2610 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2177	56.6% Above average	Read 467 Write 150 Mixed 260 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 20.2 4K Mixed 18.6 78% 22.4 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 61.4 DQ Mixed 38.4 50% 92.4 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204263680 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10178 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 104 (07) Seek error rate 68 57 25816134913 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16815 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2297 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 39 39 61 (BC) Unknown 100 99 103080919066 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555352097 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 61281 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 81604378657 (C5) Current pending sector count 97 97 520 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 97 97 520 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 54576149436752 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56875686769797 (F2) Unknown 100 253 70809928454638	70% Very good	Read 133 Write 111 Mixed 145 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.38 89% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 4,421 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.5 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 23.8 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 80%

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Gaming 68%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,453x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,153x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $587

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