MSI MS-17A1

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 61% Destroyer


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	98.2% 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	184% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star GT73VR 6RF
Motherboard	MSI MS-17A1 (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160728
Uptime	11.9 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '17 at 23:30
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	18%

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 i7-6700HQ 320,434 User benchmarks, average bench 59% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.6 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 79.1 1-Core 87.7 2-Core 168 65% 112 Pts	4-Core 338 8-Core 509 53% 424 Pts	64-Core 532 33% 532 Pts
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080 (Mobile) 17,197 User benchmarks, average bench 95% MSI(1462 11BB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.2% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 136 Parallax 119 102% 127 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 126 Splatting 100 90% 112 fps
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 80GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6392 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 922 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 54 46 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5826349041	91.4% Outstanding	Read 467 Write 340 Mixed 364 87% 390 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 62.9 4K Mixed 38.1 134% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 102 112% 191 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 131%
Toshiba THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 19,151 User benchmarks, average bench 148% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57XA4104 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	184% Outstanding	Read 1,815 Write 828 Mixed 980 265% 1,207 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 48.8 162% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 261 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 113 115% 189 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 184% Great: 207%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 364GB free Firmware: JB0OA3U0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 129 129 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2718 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 3567 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 513 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 130723 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 223339085862 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	52.1% Above average	Read 82.6 Write 99.1 Mixed 93.2 69% 91.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.17 62% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GB 20,148 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.1% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 21.8 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 20.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 82.2 49% 82.2 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-17A1

CPU
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	259x
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	232x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	357x
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	308x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	19x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	122x
Raid 0 Volume 256GBIntelBench 120%, 13,747 samples	50x
THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 148%, 19,151 samples	44x

RAM
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 20,148 samples	157x
MSI24D4S7D8MB-16 2x16GBKingstonBench 77%, 1,520 samples	95x
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 4x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 831 samples	67x

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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