MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	69.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors, 2715 x 1527 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161228
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 25 '17 at 21:14
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 152 2-Core 301 100% 183 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 834 85% 686 Pts	64-Core 838 52% 838 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470 14,621 User benchmarks, average bench 1% XFX(1682 304E) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 14.100.0.0 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.12% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 1.77 Parallax 1.62 1% 1.59 fps	MRender 1.67 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.61 1% 1.37 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.12% Great: 1%
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2327 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Lighting 88.3 Reflection 81.9 Parallax 73.7 72% 81.3 fps	MRender 84 Gravity 78 Splatting 78.7 66% 80.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7350 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2030 (B1) Unknown 97 97 34 (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 65 52 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 488 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36296854942
Poor: 72% Great: 126%
PNY CS900 240GB-$20 61,417 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 96GB free Firmware: CS900106 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2961 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 95 95 180 (AD) Unknown 100 100 393228 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2414	95.3% Outstanding	Read 477 Write 437 Mixed 466 103% 460 MB/s	4K Read 37.6 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 10.8 126% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 331 DQ Mixed 16.4 97% 221 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 91%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 30 (03) Spinup time 182 175 5883 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 998 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4333 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 998 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 144 144 170791 (C2) HDA temperature 123 110 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0
Poor: 46% Great: 96%
Hitachi HDT721032SLA380 320GB 4,331 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 285GB free Firmware: ST2OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 109 109 17194549479 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2927 (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 100 100 4220 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2924 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2973 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2973 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 210454446111 (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	56.9% Above average	Read 102 Write 95.8 Mixed 98.7 75% 99 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.46 110% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT8G4DFS8213.M8FA 859B CT8G4DFS8213.C8FBR1 16GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2800, 2800 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	MC Read 33.4 MC Write 35.3 MC Mixed 24.8 89% 31.2 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 37 SC Mixed 27.4 81% 28.3 GB/s	Latency 55.8 72% 55.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 91%

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Typical Z170A SLI (MS-7998) Builds (Compare 427 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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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 $230Bench 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 $94Bench 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 $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $450

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