MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 40% Jet ski	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	35.3% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	53.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161019
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 02 '17 at 11:14
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 94.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 266 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 731 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 730 45% 730 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7971) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4565 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.25% Terrible	Lighting 7.57 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 7.44 6% 8.72 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 6.53 Splatting 15.7 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.25% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% PNY(196E 1033) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1215 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	35.3% Below average	Lighting 42.3 Reflection 39.6 Parallax 52.1 34% 44.7 fps	MRender 54.3 Gravity 48.5 Splatting 36.2 37% 46.3 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 625GB free Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4977 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 130 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8448258391	129% Outstanding	Read 532 Write 504 Mixed 521 116% 519 MB/s	4K Read 40.6 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 53.1 202% 77 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 165 172% 283 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 124%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 41123 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1074 (B1) Unknown 76 76 843 (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 62 42 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 187 (F1) Unknown 99 99 44064280728	53.9% Above average	Read 496 Write 166 Mixed 185 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 37.3 4K Mixed 11.6 62% 22.4 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 41.5 DQ Mixed 23.8 44% 91.9 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 76%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 200894544 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 768 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13467833 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27517 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 659 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131204 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 42 387170172965 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46194 (C2) HDA temperature 37 58 51539607589 (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 5132485934324 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9402300217 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26080837518	74% Very good	Read 133 Write 125 Mixed 125 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.21 85% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 122GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 93 60667933 (03) Spinup time 98 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2064 (05) Reallocated sector count 85 85 620 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 574241162 (09) Power-on hours count 35 35 57672 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 10 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2047 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 373 (BC) Unknown 100 96 21475361444 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 2022 (BE) vendor-specific 55 41 1250593407021 (C2) HDA temperature 45 59 47244640301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 29 60667933 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 24614457630990 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2722239525 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3724166158	42.3% Average	Read 68.1 Write 79.1 Mixed 76.5 56% 74.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GB-$67 46,617 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	MC Read 31.5 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 23.6 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 35.5 SC Mixed 25.6 77% 26.9 GB/s	Latency 57.6 70% 57.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 81%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170-A PRO (MS-7971) - $180

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	906x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	688x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	276x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	394x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	380x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	131x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	66x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	61x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	117x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	95x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $533

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 $184	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