MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	133% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	107% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 00:30
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 127 2-Core 250 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 665 68% 552 Pts	64-Core 630 39% 630 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 187 Reflection 208 Parallax 184 153% 193 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 179 Splatting 128 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1343 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1040 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 53 (A3) Unknown 100 100 38 (A4) Unknown 100 100 44034 (A5) Unknown 100 100 90 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 88 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 56074 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2935 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 362127 (F2) Unknown 100 100 401582 (F5) Unknown 100 100 704544	107% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 432 Mixed 471 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 40.1 154% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 73.7 112% 211 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204376848 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4912 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96579857 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11723 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1423 (B7) Unknown 90 90 10 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 65547 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 63 408408883223 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 173 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 49745 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 -140737488355305 (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 45316199945282 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13229323798 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16064103689	94.6% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 158 Mixed 154 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.31 93% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 168GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 84454800 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1303 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41645804 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6684 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 900 (B7) Unknown 93 93 7 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65538 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 62 403767320 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 99650 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (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 -858993456066 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29119141419 (F2) Unknown 100 253 440021413544	59.4% Above average	Read 106 Write 101 Mixed 97.9 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.14 63% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$39 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.8% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 22.8 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 28.2 SC Mixed 24 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 109%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,670x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	364x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	359x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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