MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 143% UFO	Desktop 105% UFO	Workstation 127% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	144% 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	87.7% 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.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170425
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '17 at 05:59
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 160 2-Core 306 103% 187 Pts	4-Core 536 8-Core 885 87% 711 Pts	64-Core 886 55% 886 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2902 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	144% Outstanding	Lighting 209 Reflection 218 Parallax 190 170% 205 fps	MRender 140 Gravity 197 Splatting 134 127% 157 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 144% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 21,747 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 151GB free Firmware: CXZ7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	264% Outstanding	Read 2,521 Write 1,425 Mixed 1,733 418% 1,893 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 49.9 193% 75.2 MB/s	DQ Read 52.6 DQ Write 690 DQ Mixed 36.6 128% 260 MB/s
Poor: 134% ↑ This bench: 264% Great: 292%
MK0200GCTYV 200GB 75 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 95GB free Firmware: 5DV1HPG4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 130 130 153185452 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24995 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 541178987136 (B4) Unknown 130 130 160220219 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 21 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0	92.4% Outstanding	Read 440 Write 372 Mixed 415 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 95.3 4K Mixed 31.7 132% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 297 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 96.3 119% 210 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 97%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23516 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 215 (B1) Unknown 91 91 98 (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 65 32 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 155631 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 62716875514	87.7% Excellent	Read 495 Write 342 Mixed 352 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 82.6 4K Mixed 22.4 118% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 78.2 111% 207 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 118%
MK0200GCTYV 200GB 75 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 27GB free Firmware: 5DV1HPG4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 130 130 5782874 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20945 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 442394804862 (B4) Unknown 130 130 12719810 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 23 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0	90.5% Outstanding	Read 445 Write 367 Mixed 405 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 78.6 4K Mixed 33.2 125% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 113 127% 217 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 97%
Corsair Force LS 60GB-$57 3,190 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 20GB free Firmware: S9FM01.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 4813 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (A2) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 77 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3473592 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1698 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2187	41.4% Average	Read 159 Write 173 Mixed 236 43% 189 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 53.2 4K Mixed 6 70% 27.3 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 1.34 30% 72.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GB-$115 5,380 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 38.7 MC Mixed 30.2 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 31 92% 32.4 GB/s	Latency 53.1 75% 53.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 111%

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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	1,675x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	366x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	361x
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 $92Bench 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	64x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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