MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	80.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	226% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 19:58
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	GTM-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 94.3 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 763 78% 628 Pts	64-Core 772 48% 772 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 112 Parallax 102 84% 106 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 95.7 Splatting 86.1 74% 91.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 175GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3546 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1097 (B1) Unknown 98 98 39 (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 56 52 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 149 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28511444121	106% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 408 Mixed 420 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 45.1 175% 65.1 MB/s	DQ Read 41.3 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 27.8 61% 117 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	226% Outstanding	Read 2,471 Write 1,037 Mixed 1,291 351% 1,600 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 26.8 182% 75.1 MB/s	DQ Read 54 DQ Write 432 DQ Mixed 214 174% 233 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 226% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 732GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 132306928 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1722 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14178554 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3380 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1014 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 59 54 690356265 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 132 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8608 (C2) HDA temperature 41 46 85899345961 (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 -44482976282480 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19980095524 (F2) Unknown 100 253 211170936963	74.2% Very good	Read 121 Write 137 Mixed 154 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 114%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 653GB free Firmware: 2BA30003 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 38 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 91 2528 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 698 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 636 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 372 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 129504 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9327 (C2) HDA temperature 61 50 214749610023 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 52 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 521 (F1) Unknown 100 94 655631 (F2) Unknown 97 94 5341152 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	49.8% Average	Read 87.8 Write 85.4 Mixed 76 62% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 275GB free Firmware: HP40 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177483157 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9049 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 467872185 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20571 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 4057 (B4) Unknown 100 100 813082282 (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 59 49 690421801 (C2) HDA temperature 41 51 77309411369 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 23 177483157 (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 200 200 0	47.8% Average	Read 96.7 Write 69.9 Mixed 78.9 62% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.4 90% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	MC Read 32.4 MC Write 35 MC Mixed 27.5 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 28.2 83% 29 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 95%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	175x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	152x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x
Solid State Disk 128GBSpccBench 69%, 14,793 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

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 $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