MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 71.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	125% 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	55.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 08:48
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	Memory 82.9 1-Core 100 2-Core 207 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 424 48% 377 Pts	64-Core 419 26% 419 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 204 Parallax 195 140% 190 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 174 Splatting 120 114% 141 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD 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 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5758 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 370 (64) Unknown 100 100 10631584 (65) Unknown 100 100 2324240 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 79 79 6389 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 689 (B7) Unknown 90 90 109 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 214749413407 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 5 (E7) Temperature 85 85 15 (E9) Unknown 100 100 20084 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13477 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16984 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4123 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 5	55.5% Above average	Read 454 Write 192 Mixed 184 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 9.32 76% 26.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 7.61 31% 64 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 391GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 199328397 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 934 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 43776585 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5752 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 378 (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 69 56 521601055 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1057 (C2) HDA temperature 31 14 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 199328397 (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 -110088601725559 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10255958486 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12422979039	94.4% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 156 Mixed 132 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.24 84% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB-$41 16,658 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	59.3% Above average	MC Read 23 MC Write 22 MC Mixed 18.2 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 16.7 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 75.4 53% 75.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 79%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	87x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	55x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	39x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	21x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S11-256G-PHISON-SSD-B3 256GBBench 66%, 104 samples	9x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	22x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	9x

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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