MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	26 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150907
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	May 24 '16 at 12:36
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing way above expectations (90^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-$170 282,363 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)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 88.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 234 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 651 67% 542 Pts	64-Core 650 40% 650 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% XFX(1682 3232) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.150.2211.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Lighting 16.7 Reflection 17.9 Parallax 22.5 14% 19.1 fps	MRender 14.9 Gravity 15.3 Splatting 20.3 14% 16.8 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 99 1001 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 37 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 55 46 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1664175254
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$26 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 414GB free Firmware: 0001SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 227096856 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 898 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 64329910 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5020 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 888 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 36 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 35 23086222999589 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 89666 (C2) HDA temperature 37 65 21474836517 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 38 227096856 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	43.4% Average	Read 76.4 Write 74.8 Mixed 72.2 56% 74.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.41 87% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 1315 BLS8G4D240FSA.16FARG 0215 CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 1315 BLS8G4D240FSA.16FARG 32GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.4 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 23.8 66% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 80%

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Typical H170A PC MATE (MS-7971) Builds (Compare 292 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	88x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	55x
Core i5-6600Intel $133Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	39x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	21x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S11-256G-PHISON-SSD-B3 256GBBench 66%, 104 samples	9x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $42Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	22x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	9x

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Total price: $318

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