MSI MS-17A1

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	95.2% 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	140% 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	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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Micro-Star GT73VR 6RF
Motherboard	MSI MS-17A1 (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160811
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '16 at 02:10
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	Memory 89.4 1-Core 98.5 2-Core 182 73% 123 Pts	4-Core 321 8-Core 513 51% 417 Pts	64-Core 553 34% 553 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080 (Mobile) 17,197 User benchmarks, average bench 95% MSI(1462 11BB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 369.9 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.2% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 135 Parallax 118 100% 125 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 115 Splatting 98 85% 105 fps
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 104%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba THNSN5128GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 2,421 User benchmarks, average bench 150% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57XA4104 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Read 1,559 Write 568 Mixed 801 214% 976 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 94.9 4K Mixed 34 129% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 34.7 DQ Write 98.9 DQ Mixed 153 92% 95.4 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 279%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 667GB free Firmware: JB0OA3U0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 147 147 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 94 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 81 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1219 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 219044446237 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	63.2% Good	Read 110 Write 110 Mixed 105 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GB 20,148 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 29.2 MC Write 30.3 MC Mixed 22.5 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 19.9 57% 19.9 GB/s	Latency 68.1 59% 68.1 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 78%

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

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 60%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI MS-17A1

CPU
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	260x
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	234x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	230x

GPU
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	359x
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	312x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	19x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	123x
Raid 0 Volume 256GBIntelBench 120%, 13,747 samples	50x
THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 148%, 19,151 samples	45x

RAM
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 20,148 samples	158x
MSI24D4S7D8MB-16 2x16GBKingstonBench 77%, 1,520 samples	95x
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 4x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 831 samples	69x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

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