MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 94.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.8% 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.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161221
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '18 at 12:12
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 721 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 730 45% 730 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 110 Parallax 89.5 85% 101 fps	MRender 90.9 Gravity 89.7 Splatting 93.9 75% 91.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 256GB-$139 17,545 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 123GB free Firmware: X2316RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 761 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 168 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 318 (A9) Unknown 100 100 295 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 203 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 44 188980002845 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1612 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 52983 (F1) Unknown 253 253 24643 (F2) Unknown 253 253 45058 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	54.3% Above average	Read 394 Write 165 Mixed 255 60% 271 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 56.5 4K Mixed 10.3 82% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 168 DQ Write 59 DQ Mixed 27.5 43% 84.7 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 99%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 94716217 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -81638738361508 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 208 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 3 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 45 73017393182 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 73017393182 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 94716217 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 94716217 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 94716217 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 283 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2686 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2686 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4388 (F4) Unknown 97 97 7143533	66.8% Good	Read 501 Write 192 Mixed 231 67% 308 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 14.4 100% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 119 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 32.2 54% 102 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow KC300 120GB-$80 2,344 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 47GB free Firmware: 507ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4710050 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 81913616277251 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1733 (0D) Soft read error rate 46 46 46089298763426 (64) Unknown 0 0 17270 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3680 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 328 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 198 (BD) vendor-specific 27 80 5242907 (C2) HDA temperature 27 80 5242907 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4710050 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 -36687610642432 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4710050 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4710050 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 14 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12902 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7235 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7235 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7852	79.6% Very good	Read 509 Write 202 Mixed 226 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 94 4K Mixed 20.5 130% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 208 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 51.2 81% 154 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 86%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 447GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 139 3925 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3882 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2309 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 203 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3678 (C2) HDA temperature 114 98 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	65.8% Good	Read 115 Write 114 Mixed 115 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.52 120% 1 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 18,693 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	MC Read 34.8 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 30.2 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 37.8 SC Mixed 27.7 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 50.7 79% 50.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 102%

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Typical Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 2,308 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $150

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	817x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	630x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	226x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	305x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	221x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	74x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	55x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	98x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	71x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $589

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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