MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	230% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, , 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150921
Uptime	4.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 06 '16 at 01:07
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 136 2-Core 255 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 690 71% 572 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6869 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	Lighting 70.7 Reflection 69.7 Parallax 62.7 58% 67.7 fps	MRender 76.3 Gravity 65.2 Splatting 55.5 53% 65.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370 512GB-$179 1,585 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 306GB free Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^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 100 100 318 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 718 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 34 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13642 (A5) Unknown 100 100 62 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 40389 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 97928 (F2) Unknown 100 100 398437 (F5) Unknown 100 100 218272	105% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 437 Mixed 477 106% 477 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 38.4 150% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 75.2 111% 206 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 105%
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$31 9,202 User benchmarks, average bench 183% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 1,887 Write 1,038 Mixed 1,251 307% 1,392 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 150 4K Mixed 59.3 228% 85.8 MB/s	DQ Read 610 DQ Write 370 DQ Mixed 260 255% 413 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 243%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 106GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 72 6296837 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 10771777995815 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1754 (AB) Unknown 0 0 4 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 4 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 54 60133081116 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6296837 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6296837 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6296837 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16223 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12779 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12779 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13692	63.5% Good	Read 370 Write 141 Mixed 198 52% 236 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 78.4 4K Mixed 19 113% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 42.8 63% 119 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 83%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$80 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 178 7733 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1158 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1811 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 329 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2581 (C2) HDA temperature 123 114 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	83.3% Excellent	Read 143 Write 147 Mixed 141 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 0.29 118% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 100%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 725GB free Firmware: BD15 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 193739471 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4104 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 83 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 591129298 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25999 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2981 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 47245361928 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 170 (BE) vendor-specific 68 30 1984880377888 (C2) HDA temperature 32 70 55834574880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 27 193739471 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	59.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 102 Mixed 95.3 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.44 111% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 66%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 288GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 222 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 64 10233 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3831 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16475 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1911 (B5) Unknown 97 97 68506593 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4527 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 193274118170 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 253 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3854	64% Good	Read 101 Write 122 Mixed 119 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.32 102% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL14-16-16 D4-2400 4x8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.1% Good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 21.1 65% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 21.6 60% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 122%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	357x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	47x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	27x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $88Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 83%, 15,511 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	14x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $164	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $149
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359