MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.5% 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	239% 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 17 '19 at 03:15
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 88.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 250 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 683 67% 547 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 436.30 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 114 Parallax 113 87% 111 fps	MRender 94.2 Gravity 99.7 Splatting 90.2 77% 94.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1TB 17,176 User benchmarks, average bench 242% 113GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. SusWrite @10s intervals: 376 373 437 477 457 448 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 3,057 Write 745 Mixed 814 SusWrite 428 274% 1,261 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 51.6 184% 65.8 MB/s	DQ Read 1,203 DQ Write 330 DQ Mixed 786 574% 773 MB/s
Poor: 115% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 372%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$178 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 147 146 149 150 150 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Read 160 Write 155 Mixed 102 SusWrite 148 104% 142 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.3 4K Mixed 0.9 203% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 4x8GB 1,993 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.5% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 26.5 MC Mixed 21.3 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 23.4 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 121%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	351x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	46x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	98x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 83%, 15,511 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,380

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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