MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


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 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 83.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67% 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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920x1080x4294967296 szín
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160724
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '17 at 14:34
Run Duration	347 Seconds
Run User	HUN-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Memory 96.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 199 78% 132 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 697 65% 540 Pts	64-Core 731 45% 731 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Lighting 74.5 Reflection 65 Parallax 98.3 61% 79.3 fps	MRender 64.5 Gravity 62.6 Splatting 83.5 59% 70.2 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 88GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7506 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1069 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 47 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 162 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6168624522	89.5% Excellent	Read 507 Write 347 Mixed 357 89% 404 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 83.3 4K Mixed 26.2 145% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 46.2 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 73.2 71% 107 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 118%
Intenso 128GB 128GB 1,805 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0213E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 229 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 432 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 251 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 78 (A4) Unknown 100 100 80100 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 45360 (F2) Unknown 100 100 43750	67% Good	Read 492 Write 163 Mixed 243 65% 299 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 3.48 113% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 11.1 47% 106 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181581152 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 584 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12246636 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4572 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 568 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471203868 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 25968 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 81604378652 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -106244605998079 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8914984400 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23132862140	105% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 181 Mixed 167 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.22 89% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%
WD Green 500GB (2012) 31,295 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 303GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 135 4083 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2107 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16704 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2063 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 195 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 148 148 156616 (C2) HDA temperature 116 95 27 (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 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60.9% Good	Read 116 Write 96.2 Mixed 98.9 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.24 88% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 596GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 191898165 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5891 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 8801654056 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25199 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2839 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 42950328345 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 51 521666591 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 47244640287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 10 191898165 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 172 49176 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 29192892744360 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1179049615 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2552169907	43.5% Average	Read 86.8 Write 64.6 Mixed 69.4 55% 73.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.4 87% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 68%
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 16GB 901 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 5GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	8.13% Terrible	Read 29.9 Write 5.36 Mixed 7.89 14% 14.4 MB/s	4K Read 11.1 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.008 42% 3.7 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.13% Great: 24%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 40.3 MC Mixed 31.6 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 42.5 SC Mixed 29.6 88% 30.9 GB/s	Latency 51.2 78% 51.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) Builds (Compare 2,762 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,434x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	628x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	530x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	327x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	126x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	129x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	88x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	85x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $573

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