MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 75%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	21.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '19 at 03:33
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	60%

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PC Performing as expected (47^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 way below expectations (15^th percentile)	75% Very good	Memory 89.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 206 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 326 8-Core 573 54% 450 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% MSI(1462 3732) CLim: 2190 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.8 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 114 Parallax 117 104% 119 fps	MRender 144 Gravity 123 Splatting 97.1 97% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ TL100 240GB-$56 10,555 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFZ10.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 185 46 68 36 40 71 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	68% Good	Read 468 Write 288 Mixed 246 SusWrite 74.2 60% 269 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 60.7 4K Mixed 30.1 113% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 151 DQ Mixed 210 160% 221 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 89%
PNY CS1311 960GB-$195 1,486 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 149GB free Firmware: CS131122 SusWrite @10s intervals: 389 421 444 212 236 321 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Read 472 Write 462 Mixed 372 SusWrite 337 92% 411 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 33.3 115% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 206 189% 290 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 108%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 950GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 177 179 180 180 180 180 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Read 156 Write 159 Mixed 39 SusWrite 179 96% 133 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.6 144% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 029E CMW16GX4M2C3000C15 029E CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 029E CMW16GX4M2C3000C15 32GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2600, 2600, 2600, 2600 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	77.3% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 30 MC Mixed 24.7 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 32 SC Mixed 21.3 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 89%

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Typical Z170A SLI (MS-7998) Builds (Compare 427 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	175x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	152x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	38x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x
Solid State Disk 128GBSpccBench 69%, 14,793 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $450

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	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