MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.8% 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	70.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

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, 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-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161021
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '17 at 17:59
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 93 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 523 8-Core 774 81% 648 Pts	64-Core 774 48% 774 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6170) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2192 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 123 Parallax 105 91% 113 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 103 Splatting 109 88% 107 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD8SBBU120G1122 120GB 2,087 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 87GB free Firmware: Z3106000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1349 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 378 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1885590324669 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 23 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 200 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 52 206158430247 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2100246282729 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 936 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6982 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2559 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2261 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	82.8% Excellent	Read 505 Write 406 Mixed 454 101% 455 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 7.11 102% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 7.21 64% 144 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 67%
Spcc Solid State Disk 240GB 15,968 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 5GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1153 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 71 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 24540 (A5) Unknown 100 100 22 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1874 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2045 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	70.7% Very good	Read 492 Write 381 Mixed 426 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 78.9 4K Mixed 3.11 86% 36.2 MB/s	DQ Read 27.2 DQ Write 171 DQ Mixed 3.07 31% 67 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 99%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 489GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 126 126 17199595820 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 472 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2239 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 444 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 843 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 843 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 154619871264 (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	89.3% Excellent	Read 158 Write 154 Mixed 134 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.2 86% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x8GB 17,846 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.7% Average	MC Read 15 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 11.6 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 15.6 SC Mixed 15.3 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 62.1 64% 62.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 86%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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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 $90Bench 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: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $445

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 $45	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