MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61.7% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 03:00
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 243 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 690 70% 568 Pts	64-Core 686 42% 686 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.4% Good	Lighting 78 Reflection 76.5 Parallax 73.1 64% 75.9 fps	MRender 67.8 Gravity 69 Splatting 72 57% 69.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 82GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 124 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 602 (64) Unknown 100 100 1552320 (65) Unknown 100 100 485120 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 233 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2701 (B7) Unknown 100 100 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 163209412639 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 124 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 124 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2638 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2191 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2346 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5312 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 124	68.7% Good	Read 468 Write 262 Mixed 269 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 42.8 4K Mixed 11.6 83% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 26 73% 160 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 92%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD 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 79 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4515 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 688 (64) Unknown 100 100 3296432 (65) Unknown 100 100 406240 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 46 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 94 94 1981 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 700 (B7) Unknown 99 99 19 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 171799281695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 79 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 79 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6009 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2227 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4552 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5857 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 79	61.7% Good	Read 467 Write 185 Mixed 190 61% 281 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 10.9 88% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 9.38 45% 101 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 451GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 63 35032275 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 626 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16509184 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4093 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 616 (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 67 62 554827809 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 635 (C2) HDA temperature 33 6 25769803809 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 13 1 35032275 (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 111888193032147 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5829002625 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6359633928	94.5% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 167 Mixed 137 116% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.24 80% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C12 2x8GB 7,412 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 28.9 MC Write 30.6 MC Mixed 24.7 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 31.1 SC Mixed 25.6 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 90%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,675x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	322x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	366x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	64x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $897

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