MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	19.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	92.2% 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	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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 26 '16 at 22:02
Run Duration	234 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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-$180 282,363 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 (97^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 112 2-Core 219 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 631 62% 506 Pts	64-Core 636 39% 636 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti (448 Core LE) 2,165 User benchmarks, average bench 19% Gigabyte(1458 353A) 1.2GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.6909 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	19.6% Very poor	Lighting 22.7 Reflection 35.6 Parallax 25.5 18% 27.9 fps	MRender 37.7 Gravity 18 Splatting 25.5 22% 27 fps
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 19.6% Great: 21%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 112GB free Firmware: 1.35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 64871186046726 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1008 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 18 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3200 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4416 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4416 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6080	49.4% Average	Read 202 Write 103 Mixed 112 31% 139 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 78.6 4K Mixed 17.7 100% 40 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 40.4 54% 98.2 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 55%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21624 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 255 (B1) Unknown 93 93 84 (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 40 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38806577779	92.2% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 339 Mixed 339 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 74.6 4K Mixed 23.6 135% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 25.8 84% 187 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 118%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 43GB free Firmware: 1.3 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 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 34950 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 618 (E8) Unknown 100 100 16547859571 (E9) Unknown 99 0 99	70.5% Very good	Read 403 Write 192 Mixed 259 63% 285 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 19.9 136% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 17.4 30% 56.4 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 104%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 173 7466 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1593 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 19755 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 196 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 144 144 170083 (C2) HDA temperature 118 109 34 (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	81.6% Excellent	Read 151 Write 134 Mixed 119 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.23 85% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 87%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$32 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 60GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 4 (03) Spinup time 176 170 4175 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3614 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 39368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1142 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 195 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3420 (C2) HDA temperature 104 90 43 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 199 73	66.1% Good	Read 130 Write 100 Mixed 103 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.3 90% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 76%
WDC WD10 EADS-00M2B0 1TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 286GB free, PID 55aa Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	32.7% Below average	Read 85.3 Write 74.1 Mixed 77.3 100% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.21 54% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 32.7% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB 7,485 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 20.4 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 19.7 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 67.3 60% 67.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,477x
Core i5-6600KIntel $88Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,160x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	313x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	863x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	443x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	367x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	283x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	272x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	245x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	199x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $573

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16