MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.9% 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	108% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	7 Days
Run Date	May 01 '18 at 08:52
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 91.7 1-Core 120 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 646 70% 554 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 2138 MHz, MLim: 2302 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.9% Excellent	Lighting 98.9 Reflection 107 Parallax 82.3 81% 96.1 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 102 Splatting 108 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 232GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 83 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 42 (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 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 96667189	110% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 397 Mixed 409 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 84.4 4K Mixed 45.6 171% 58.3 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 128 142% 242 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Sandisk PLUS 240 GB 240GB 24,911 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 223GB free Firmware: UF3000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 551 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 364 (A5) Unknown 100 100 340 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 486 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 55 236223725598 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 416614449249 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 636 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2592 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1034 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1705 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	59.4% Above average	Read 512 Write 333 Mixed 408 93% 418 MB/s	4K Read 18.8 4K Write 24.4 4K Mixed 5.96 49% 16.4 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 93.5 DQ Mixed 9.46 33% 72.8 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 56%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 197GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 83 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 46 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 955732199	108% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 398 Mixed 415 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 81.1 4K Mixed 44.3 164% 56 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 123 136% 230 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 1TB-$56 127,507 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 874GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 104943548 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 438 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3789234 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -48619029790598 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 63 387186711 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 132 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 599 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 64424509463 (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 -35360465747846 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3702665839 (F2) Unknown 100 253 552680741 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	62% Good	Read 120 Write 96.1 Mixed 66.6 70% 94.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 0.78 4K Mixed 0.64 124% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	75.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.5 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 22.6 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 85%

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Gaming 46%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

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Motherboard: MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978)

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	97x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	70x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	58x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	33x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	37x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	22x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	21x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	16x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $521

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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