MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	270% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	24.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '17 at 18:32
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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 below expectations (34^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 123 2-Core 243 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 636 61% 503 Pts	64-Core 646 40% 646 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 80.1 Reflection 81.1 Parallax 70.7 65% 77.3 fps	MRender 73 Gravity 73.3 Splatting 77 61% 74.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 512GB 18,578 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 285GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	270% Outstanding	Read 2,454 Write 1,478 Mixed 2,057 443% 1,996 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 37.5 162% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 836 DQ Write 636 DQ Mixed 328 356% 600 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 270% Great: 332%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 42GB free Firmware: EMT0 Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Read 377 Write 331 Mixed 323 77% 344 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 70.4 4K Mixed 32.7 137% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 91.1 90% 143 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 115%
OCZ Vertex 460A 120GB-$88 763 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 25GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17488 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 50 (AB) Unknown 100 100 40268880 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 21 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 508 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1156 (F9) Unknown 100 100 26787725	91.5% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 418 Mixed 441 101% 455 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 19.9 113% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 295 DQ Mixed 67.9 110% 211 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 103%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 278GB free Firmware: 01.0 Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	55.6% Above average	Read 111 Write 83.1 Mixed 83.4 69% 92.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.16 65% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 278GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 890 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 879 (C2) HDA temperature 114 99 29 (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	57.5% Above average	Read 116 Write 84.9 Mixed 88.3 72% 96.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.19 61% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 57.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 8,912 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.3% Very good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 22.4 70% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 27.1 SC Mixed 21.8 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 125%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	351x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	47x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	98x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 83%, 15,511 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,380

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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