MSI H170 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.5% 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	76.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI H170 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160724
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '18 at 14:57
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 133 2-Core 252 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 703 73% 586 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 118 Parallax 117 90% 115 fps	MRender 96.8 Gravity 103 Splatting 92.9 80% 97.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TD256HAFV-000L7 256GB 6,630 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 210GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT06L6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13203 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1198 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 82 82 207 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6240 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E9) Unknown 199 199 20974252 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (EC) Unknown 99 99 152 (ED) Unknown 99 99 207 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	76.6% Very good	Read 521 Write 229 Mixed 117 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 95.5 4K Mixed 12.2 103% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 11.7 81% 192 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 80%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 133140888 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 860 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25097337 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4550 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 832 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 86 25 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 555089953 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23406 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 51539607585 (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 -18807661785939 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23563195195 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28907320694	90.9% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 146 Mixed 139 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.19 63% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 96%
Lexar USB Flash Drive 64GB 196 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 27GB free, PID 0803 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	9.96% Terrible	Read 35.1 Write 10.1 Mixed 34.5 32% 26.6 MB/s	4K Read 2.78 4K Write 0.65 4K Mixed 0.49 49% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 9.96% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 11,950 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.8% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 24.3 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 105%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: MSI H170 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	227x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	194x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	163x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	111x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	69x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	72x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	71x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	49x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $408

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 $179	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