MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.1% 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	66.1% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151028
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '18 at 00:24
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	14%

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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 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 (94^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 253 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 472 58% 445 Pts	64-Core 488 30% 488 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.8 91% 108 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G3SA754D117-485 240GB 526 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 80GB free Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st 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 81 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 4 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3066 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 103 (E7) Temperature 100 100 40 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2694 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1440	94.1% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 300 Mixed 380 88% 400 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 33.2 140% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 62.9 108% 210 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 97%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1230C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^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 3453 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 169 (A3) Unknown 100 100 51 (A4) Unknown 100 100 52743 (A5) Unknown 100 100 54 (A6) Unknown 100 100 14 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 59 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 41 (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 839450 (F2) Unknown 100 100 441915 (F5) Unknown 100 100 421944	66.1% Good	Read 486 Write 243 Mixed 258 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 16.2 94% 33.9 MB/s	DQ Read 28.8 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 30.7 44% 76.2 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 95%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 7GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 172 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17257 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 15 15 62308 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 476 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17189 (C2) HDA temperature 112 98 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.5% Above average	Read 115 Write 75.3 Mixed 84.8 69% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.32 94% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 21.8 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 18 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 60.4 66% 60.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 80%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI PLUS (MS-7998) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	668x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	426x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	363x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	156x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	152x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	65x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	52x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	50x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	64x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	49x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $595

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	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