MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.9% 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	100% 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	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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160222
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 19 '16 at 18:47
Run Duration	545 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 248 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 683 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 103 90% 110 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 99.7 Splatting 89.8 77% 95.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 85GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6210 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1991 (B1) Unknown 80 80 235 (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 62 30 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 239 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23159434792	79.8% Very good	Read 495 Write 230 Mixed 353 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 47 4K Mixed 25 123% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 87.7 DQ Mixed 58.6 83% 161 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 118%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1458 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 718 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 57 56 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12526014901	100% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 405 Mixed 414 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 56.9 4K Mixed 38.8 146% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 69.7 96% 183 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 838GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54774000 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1365 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2737341 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1386 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 62 572129314 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8512 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 51539607586 (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 1357209666217 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2981593057 (F2) Unknown 100 253 366231359184	93% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 150 Mixed 155 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.23 85% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 705GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 70311808 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1057 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15485325 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 704 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 59 588906531 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5689 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 55834574883 (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 76385993360346 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5350028642 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40067280180	80.5% Excellent	Read 145 Write 136 Mixed 134 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.17 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 114%
WD My Book 1140 2TB 10,094 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 708GB free, PID 1140 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	40.2% Average	Read 101 Write 85.1 Mixed 82.9 112% 89.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.16 84% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 49%
WD My Book 1130 2TB 1,666 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 675GB free, PID 1130 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	39.7% Below average	Read 88 Write 93.2 Mixed 85 115% 88.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 48%
WD My Book 1130 2TB 1,666 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 670GB free, PID 1130 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	45.6% Average	Read 108 Write 110 Mixed 50.6 110% 89.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.18 73% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 48%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 79GB free, PID 1042 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	28% Poor	Read 52.2 Write 71.8 Mixed 46.6 75% 56.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.14 58% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 43%
Verbatim STORE N GO 64GB 1,445 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 56GB free, PID 0302 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	4.27% Terrible	Read 16.1 Write 4.03 Mixed 5.63 9% 8.59 MB/s	4K Read 4.39 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.02 17% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.27% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB-$182 7,414 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.5 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 24.6 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 101%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,679x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	324x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	366x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	365x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	64x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $686

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16