MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	84.3% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '18 at 22:51
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^th 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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 149 2-Core 300 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 550 8-Core 594 75% 572 Pts	64-Core 599 37% 599 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1640 MHz, MLim: 1927 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Lighting 79.9 Reflection 81.8 Parallax 72.9 65% 78.2 fps	MRender 81.4 Gravity 73.9 Splatting 68.6 60% 74.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16294131 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 112768661325361 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 440 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 159 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 62 47248703521 (C2) HDA temperature 33 62 47248703521 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16294131 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16294131 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16294131 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 64424509440 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6980 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7448 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7448 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7944 (F4) Unknown 100 100 3407898	84.3% Excellent	Read 518 Write 223 Mixed 295 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 22.9 138% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 59.7 89% 165 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 85%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 861GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 79 79 7170 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4106 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10648 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8692 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 502 (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 67 61 555810849 (C2) HDA temperature 68 59 555745312 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 15357 (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 9 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	53.8% Above average	Read 91 Write 96.1 Mixed 103 73% 96.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.56 127% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 233GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 81 110140185 (03) Spinup time 98 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1069 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 662341707 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 40281 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1059 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 21 -3604479960 (C2) HDA temperature 40 79 51539607592 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 46 142804451 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	42.9% Average	Read 74.9 Write 74.4 Mixed 70.7 55% 73.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.3 93% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 43%
Maxtor STM3250310AS 250GB 13,068 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 233GB free Firmware: 3.AAC Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 92 114496332 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1910 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 89 60 845697128 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27423 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1783 (BB) vendor-specific 65 65 35 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 45 589496355 (C2) HDA temperature 35 55 51539607587 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 96 54 133355619 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	40.9% Average	Read 71.4 Write 70.7 Mixed 63.8 52% 68.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.28 84% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 1x8GB-$25 15,315 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2700 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 15.2 50% 17.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 16.6 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 44%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	555x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	363x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	74x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16