MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	21.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	183% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '16 at 16:16
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 253 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 502 67% 502 Pts	64-Core 502 31% 502 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-$170 123,956 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Asus(1043 843B) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6200 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	21.6% Poor	Lighting 26.1 Reflection 24.3 Parallax 30.8 21% 27.1 fps	MRender 33.8 Gravity 24 Splatting 25.2 22% 27.6 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 21.6% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 150GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3691 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 468 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 70 50 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3984119661	109% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 422 Mixed 512 107% 479 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 43.3 157% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 294 DQ Mixed 154 164% 273 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,686 Write 780 Mixed 975 252% 1,147 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 47.5 172% 68.9 MB/s	DQ Read 458 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 181 174% 280 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 243%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 105GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8459 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1025 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 71 51 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3611595803	83.6% Excellent	Read 474 Write 297 Mixed 343 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 21.3 116% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 65.5 106% 209 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 89GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8267 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1023 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 195781320	83.6% Excellent	Read 477 Write 260 Mixed 307 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 68.1 4K Mixed 21.6 123% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 66 107% 210 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 108%
FTM12C325H 120GB 23 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 79GB free Firmware: MP332 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 34522947139355 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1840 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 16 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 64427655198 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3941 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3592 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3592 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7401	45.9% Average	Read 188 Write 106 Mixed 119 30% 137 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 10.2 95% 42.1 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 32.4 47% 86.8 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 53%
Samsung HD253GJ 250GB 4,131 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 128GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 84 83 5014 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7244 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14685 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2459 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159347742 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7255	59.6% Above average	Read 85.8 Write 122 Mixed 111 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.5 128% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSA.16FADG 4x8GB 104 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	86.4% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 33 MC Mixed 28.6 88% 30.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 34.1 SC Mixed 25.8 75% 26.2 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 89%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,453x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,153x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $587

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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