MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 55% Gunboat


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	54.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	93.7% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A11
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170427
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '18 at 14:26
Run Duration	188 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 159 2-Core 318 105% 191 Pts	4-Core 588 8-Core 872 91% 730 Pts	64-Core 870 54% 870 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% XFX(1682 9480) CLim: 1288 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	Lighting 69.6 Reflection 67.6 Parallax 82.9 57% 73.4 fps	MRender 68.2 Gravity 66.1 Splatting 55.8 51% 63.4 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8811 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3834 (B1) Unknown 95 95 54 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 64 44 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1802 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35628529941	93.7% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 350 Mixed 351 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 82 4K Mixed 22.2 138% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 207 DQ Mixed 21.8 83% 186 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 118%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 88GB free Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4282852 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 60052232742891 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3085 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 146 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 64427655200 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4282852 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4282852 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4282852 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17335 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15887 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15887 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25872	75.4% Very good	Read 486 Write 148 Mixed 222 62% 285 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 18.3 138% 57.1 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 41.6 64% 122 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 79%
Mushkin ECO3 480GB-$155 2,300 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 55GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (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 100 100 453 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1614 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 150 (A3) Unknown 100 100 20 (A4) Unknown 100 100 17251 (A5) Unknown 100 100 41 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 17 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 204 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 215556 (F2) Unknown 100 100 775054 (F5) Unknown 100 100 138008	78.3% Very good	Read 491 Write 260 Mixed 274 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 66 4K Mixed 28 127% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.6 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 47.8 54% 87.7 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101337392 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 616 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13648270 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1615 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 612 (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 51 555024417 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 63 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 915 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 68719476769 (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 -28363964021181 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14210696074 (F2) Unknown 100 253 315266341194	93.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 159 Mixed 160 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.15 63% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 114%
HGST Travelstar 7K750 2.5" 750GB-$77 8,773 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 516GB free Firmware: JF4OA200 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 181 181 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2734 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 6732 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2706 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 197208 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 236223660070 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	51.2% Above average	Read 85.7 Write 92.8 Mixed 96.9 69% 91.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.21 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	97.9% Outstanding	MC Read 37.4 MC Write 37.3 MC Mixed 28.3 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 39.9 SC Mixed 31.6 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 47.9 84% 47.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 105%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	606x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	496x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	119x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	345x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	169x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	154x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	90x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	70x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	102x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	79x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	61x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

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 $184	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) $35	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