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

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 51% Yacht


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	52.1% 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)
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A11
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11) (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '18 at 19:43
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	18%

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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 i7-7700K-$241 712,312 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 (99^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 159 2-Core 316 104% 191 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 810 83% 669 Pts	64-Core 849 52% 849 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.7% 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: 1350 MHz, MLim: 2100 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.4 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	52.1% Above average	Lighting 64 Reflection 62.9 Parallax 85.1 52% 70.7 fps	MRender 70.3 Gravity 68.1 Splatting 56 52% 64.8 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 138GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8910 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3861 (B1) Unknown 95 95 55 (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 65 44 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1807 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35916727900
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 121GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2940 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 366 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8874124913	118% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 393 Mixed 421 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 47.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 52.8 195% 68.5 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 127 143% 245 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Mushkin ECO3 480GB-$155 2,300 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 99GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd 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 100 100 468 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1641 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 150 (A3) Unknown 100 100 20 (A4) Unknown 100 100 18284 (A5) Unknown 100 100 42 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 18 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 208 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 20 (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 228327 (F2) Unknown 100 100 799830 (F5) Unknown 100 100 146272	82.6% Excellent	Read 488 Write 260 Mixed 273 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 63.8 4K Mixed 29.3 125% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 25.1 68% 148 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 101%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 95GB free Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4261605 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -115826678028210 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3112 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 150 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 48 64427655199 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4261605 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4261605 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4261605 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17889 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16365 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16365 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25933	74% Very good	Read 484 Write 139 Mixed 223 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 19 136% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 43.2 64% 121 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 79%
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 (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 89382560 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 643 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 14132332 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1714 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 639 (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 68 51 572391456 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 946 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 68719476768 (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 3414499002022 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14903689434 (F2) Unknown 100 253 337898499951	90.7% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 155 Mixed 138 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.7% 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 196 196 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2761 (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 6831 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2733 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 197305 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 236223660062 (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 88.9 Write 89.6 Mixed 96.5 69% 91.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.2 69% 0.66 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 (83^rd percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 28.1 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 30.8 83% 29 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 97.2% 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 $130Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	61x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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