MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	138% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	113% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7970
Motherboard	MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970) (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171206
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '18 at 03:43
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 90.1 1-Core 105 2-Core 228 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 446 59% 443 Pts	64-Core 447 28% 447 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 4471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2900 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 199 Reflection 200 Parallax 185 162% 195 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 187 Splatting 128 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 156GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6888 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1779 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (AA) Unknown 100 100 324 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1114151 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 788 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 8 (E7) Temperature 100 100 83 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6239	75.3% Very good	Read 505 Write 336 Mixed 349 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 10.2 90% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 99.6 DQ Mixed 42.2 74% 150 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 97%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 1,250 Write 359 Mixed 586 159% 732 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 20.5 129% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 19.9 31% 55.5 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 185%
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC064MAG 64GB 1,591 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 48GB free Firmware: 0002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^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 1162 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 533 (AA) Unknown 100 100 4395 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1967095021857 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 101 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	47.8% Average	Read 355 Write 70.7 Mixed 117 39% 181 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 59.4 4K Mixed 4.32 86% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 65.6 DQ Mixed 16.4 42% 93 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 53%
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 41GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd 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 3792 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1630 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 44 (AE) Unknown 100 100 581 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 41 253404119074 (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 100 100 862 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 11452774896 (F7) Unknown 100 100 363238055 (F8) Unknown 100 100 277956693	78.6% Very good	Read 491 Write 404 Mixed 435 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 51.6 4K Mixed 24.3 98% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 45.7 DQ Mixed 32.3 42% 78.6 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 235627618 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 85956905423 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 101026220739223 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 545 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475164165 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 58 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 972 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10283 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 51539607580 (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 -34591666600656 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19225919167 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17291721425	74.2% Very good	Read 132 Write 127 Mixed 92.2 87% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.19 73% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 105%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 16GB-$8 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 14GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Read 129 Write 40.7 Mixed 56.6 80% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 5.4 4K Write 2.87 4K Mixed 1.24 160% 3.17 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4-2400 CL16 8GB 4x8GB 376 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.8 85% 29.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 31.2 SC Mixed 23 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 112%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	137x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x
750 EVO 500GBSamsungBench 103%, 31,052 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	18x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

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