MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	154% 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.

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

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '17 at 18:50
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 150 2-Core 299 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 527 8-Core 828 84% 678 Pts	64-Core 833 52% 833 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2833 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 378.92 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71.9% Very good	Lighting 55.4 Reflection 215 Parallax 191 45% 154 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 196 Splatting 129 124% 154 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$110 2,806 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	154% Outstanding	Read 1,681 Write 549 Mixed 708 213% 979 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 24.4 156% 59.4 MB/s	DQ Read 48.5 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 117 108% 157 MB/s
Poor: 125% ↑ This bench: 154% Great: 215%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 70GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 31662727 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 2508260910320 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 741 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 392 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 44 107377066012 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 107377066012 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 31662727 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 31662727 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 31662727 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2043 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1362 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1362 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1821	82.7% Excellent	Read 500 Write 177 Mixed 220 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 35.8 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 24.1 152% 62 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 53.3 73% 132 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 87%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 745GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1311 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3323 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 791 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 431 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 879 (C2) HDA temperature 108 93 35 (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	63.7% Good	Read 98.1 Write 124 Mixed 90.9 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.34 102% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 109%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 635GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 122 115 6858 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 688 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 751 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 415 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4220 (C2) HDA temperature 114 90 33 (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	41.3% Average	Read 72.6 Write 71.4 Mixed 69.7 54% 71.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.22 52% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4-3200 CL16 8GB 2x8GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3264 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	99.8% Outstanding	MC Read 37.3 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 30.4 100% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 40.2 SC Mixed 29.9 89% 31.1 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 112%

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Typical Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION(MS-7968) Builds (Compare 511 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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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	353x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	47x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 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 $94Bench 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	14x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Total price: $1,245

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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