MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.4% 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 (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A16
Motherboard	MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160621
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '17 at 00:35
Run Duration	329 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 87.1 1-Core 125 2-Core 236 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 332 8-Core 397 47% 365 Pts	64-Core 397 25% 397 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 120 Parallax 102 93% 112 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 104 Splatting 105 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 120GB-$45 22,057 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0730A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^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 1442 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1615 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 141 (A3) Unknown 100 100 11 (94) Unknown 100 100 483917 (95) Unknown 100 100 2824 (96) Unknown 100 100 2627 (97) Unknown 100 100 2813 (A4) Unknown 100 100 91795 (A5) Unknown 100 100 110 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 49 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 249 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 49 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 531	69.4% Good	Read 492 Write 222 Mixed 246 70% 320 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 61.3 4K Mixed 14 94% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 44.5 76% 149 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 412GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 146786268 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1261 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17826668 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 697 (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 71 49 487456797 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1263 (C2) HDA temperature 29 11 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 146786268 (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 129888400968124 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4263734653 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9797143086	95.1% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 161 Mixed 152 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.27 105% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 112%
Samsung HD252HJ 250GB 8,167 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 147GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 91 91 3590 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4151 (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 97 97 14371 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3858 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 56 336199700 (C2) HDA temperature 77 52 386531351 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 17779 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 99 56 717 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.7% Average	Read 82.3 Write 83.6 Mixed 80.5 62% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.49 111% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 58%
SanDisk Cruzer Edge 8GB 5,792 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 1GB free, PID 556b Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	11.6% Very poor	Read 36.1 Write 4.08 Mixed 9.47 15% 16.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.15 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.86 94% 2.15 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 11.6% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.2% Very good	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 25.3 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 24.3 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 88%

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Typical Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) Builds (Compare 255 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	134x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	36x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $125Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	7x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $599

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