MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	79.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (48%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 28 '17 at 16:07
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Memory 86.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 258 88% 159 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 457 59% 447 Pts	64-Core 463 29% 463 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD 64GB-$56 3,862 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 52GB free Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12604 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3083 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 158 (AE) Unknown 100 100 703 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 526 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 735 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6138525297 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9217208737	43.5% Average	Read 441 Write 198 Mixed 250 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 13.3 4K Mixed 7.41 43% 12.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.1 DQ Write 12.9 DQ Mixed 7.44 10% 18.5 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 48%
Transcend SSD370S 128GB-$70 10,510 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th 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 2478 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1939 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 166770 (A5) Unknown 100 100 212 (A6) Unknown 100 100 110 (A7) Unknown 100 100 163 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 95 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 388 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 496 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 97299 (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 100 100 390 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 397561 (F2) Unknown 100 100 659158 (F5) Unknown 100 100 667080	79.8% Very good	Read 501 Write 150 Mixed 230 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 32.3 138% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 53.1 78% 149 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 90%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 669GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 4 (03) Spinup time 114 102 7291 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6815 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14876 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4016 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1005 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 116 116 252765 (C2) HDA temperature 109 98 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5899 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.3% Average	Read 87.7 Write 84.1 Mixed 83.6 64% 85.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.21 78% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 69%
WD RE4 1TB (2010)-$55 23,775 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 115GB free Firmware: 01.01V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 208 169 2583 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1740 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5426 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1152 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 386 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1353 (C2) HDA temperature 104 94 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.7% Above average	Read 117 Write 90.8 Mixed 97.6 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.4 106% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 11,950 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	85.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 34.5 MC Mixed 28.8 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 18.6 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 105%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $150

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	818x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	631x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	305x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	74x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	55x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	98x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	71x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $589

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