MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

Performance Results


Gaming 128% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	133% 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	96.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A16
Motherboard	MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170422
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 05:39
Run Duration	241 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 143 2-Core 288 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 549 8-Core 798 84% 673 Pts	64-Core 798 49% 798 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 189 Reflection 202 Parallax 186 154% 192 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 179 Splatting 129 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 151GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1099 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 85 (B1) Unknown 88 88 235 (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 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 125267030844	96.5% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 28.4 160% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 46.5 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 28.2 37% 64.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 148 9958 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 491 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1098 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (10) Unknown 2 198 49607820360 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 472 (C2) HDA temperature 105 98 47 (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	99.2% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 175 Mixed 157 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 3.4 4K Mixed 0.26 130% 1.52 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 112%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1TB free Firmware: RT17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 63290432 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2970 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4381403012 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 132 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2229 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 59 33 1035777671209 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 3819 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14443 (C2) HDA temperature 41 67 64424509481 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 114 99 63290432 (C5) Current pending sector count 47 47 17432 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 47 47 17432 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -61933428406301 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41043620805 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41193028684	56.5% Above average	Read 95.8 Write 98.8 Mixed 77.1 68% 90.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 7.84 4K Mixed 0.44 228% 3.03 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 280GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 159334080 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2928 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17497637 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11502 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1781 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 262149 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 37 29356876234798 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 391 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2998 (C2) HDA temperature 46 63 68719476782 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 8 159334080 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 29356101479806 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2098022670 (F2) Unknown 100 253 140261093
Poor: 32% Great: 75%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 25GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 377 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 76 3455 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5070 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 31099 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 303 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1354 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 107 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 26 317828628506 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 65746 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 303 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 32 32 688672	46.6% Average	Read 80.5 Write 81.8 Mixed 81.2 61% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.27 76% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$63 6,179 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.4% Good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 19.5 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 22.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 102%

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Workstation 58%

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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 $117Bench 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