MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	47.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	60.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160121
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '17 at 14:20
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (47^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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 239 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 623 63% 510 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 851A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	47.3% Average	Lighting 58.9 Reflection 61.4 Parallax 60.2 48% 60.1 fps	MRender 65.6 Gravity 56.3 Splatting 49.5 46% 57.1 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 89GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3755 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 414 (B1) Unknown 98 98 9 (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 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5157255695	76.8% Very good	Read 485 Write 271 Mixed 274 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 68.1 4K Mixed 18.5 126% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 42.7 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 59.3 58% 87.5 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 123%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24756 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3289 (B1) Unknown 86 86 491 (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 63 54 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 450 (F1) Unknown 99 99 55932364319	60.9% Good	Read 491 Write 219 Mixed 296 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 18.2 88% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 20.9 DQ Write 47.4 DQ Mixed 12.1 16% 26.8 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 76%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 8GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9072 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 962 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 64 39 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5661989161	107% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 416 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 47.4 188% 66.5 MB/s	DQ Read 47 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 104 73% 88.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 7GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13096 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1363 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 61 49 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 76 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7690102306	110% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 42.4 177% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 112 DQ Mixed 27.3 73% 162 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Toshiba MK5055GSX 500GB-$33 4,927 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 465GB free Firmware: FG002C 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 100 100 1652 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4589 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 12536 (0A) Spinup retry count 191 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4474 (B7) Unknown 100 100 12 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 521535519 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1368 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10289309 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 69996 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 7 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2959	40.3% Average	Read 67.7 Write 72.6 Mixed 69.8 53% 70 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.3 70% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.3% Great: 42%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 305GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 187 178 6641 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5355 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 29621 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4091 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 504 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 32 32 505710 (C2) HDA temperature 111 97 36 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.1% Average	Read 72.9 Write 77.2 Mixed 68.9 55% 73 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL15-17-17 D4-3200 2x8GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.7% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 19.7 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19.5 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 107%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	362x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	74x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

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