MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 108% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	150% 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	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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161214
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 09:44
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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 (99^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 267 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 724 74% 598 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 205 Parallax 188 156% 195 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 190 Splatting 135 123% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 51GB free Firmware: MU02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (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 100 100 472 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1828 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 32 (A3) Unknown 100 100 258 (94) Unknown 100 100 48582 (95) Unknown 100 100 685 (96) Unknown 100 100 574 (97) Unknown 100 100 656 (A4) Unknown 100 100 18125 (A5) Unknown 100 100 39 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 14 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35322350141464 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 66722 (F2) Unknown 100 100 102444 (F5) Unknown 100 100 107050 (F6) Unknown 100 100 97164 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 55% Great: 91%
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 51GB free Firmware: MU02.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (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 100 100 471 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1828 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 24 (A3) Unknown 100 100 303 (94) Unknown 100 100 48616 (95) Unknown 100 100 690 (96) Unknown 100 100 543 (97) Unknown 100 100 657 (A4) Unknown 100 100 17433 (A5) Unknown 100 100 39 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36426173448217 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 66873 (F2) Unknown 100 100 102502 (F5) Unknown 100 100 102963 (F6) Unknown 100 100 97232 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 55% Great: 91%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	150% Outstanding	Read 1,259 Write 627 Mixed 755 194% 881 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 36.5 186% 72.4 MB/s	DQ Read 46.7 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 27.7 54% 102 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 150% Great: 243%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$70 21,848 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 194GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 73 205375384 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1840 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34275679 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2480 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1297 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4534 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 50 387121175 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 23 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24434 (C2) HDA temperature 23 50 55834574871 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 119 99 205375384 (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 36928128812095 (F1) Unknown 100 253 847436618 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3663974719 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	50.7% Above average	Read 90.6 Write 86.4 Mixed 94.9 68% 90.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.16 54% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 62%
Seagate Expansion 1TB 3,195 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 159GB free, PID 2312 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	27.9% Poor	Read 85.4 Write 53.6 Mixed 79.7 90% 72.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.22 51% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 43%
Seagate Desktop 1TB 4,684 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 155GB free, PID 3300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	17.7% Very poor	Read 41.1 Write 36.4 Mixed 38.6 49% 38.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.31 54% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.7% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 37.6 MC Mixed 29.4 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 41.5 SC Mixed 29.5 88% 30.9 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 104%

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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	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	366x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	361x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	64x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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