MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.5% 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	146% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	56.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160517
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 27 '17 at 05:30
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing below expectations (36^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 118 2-Core 220 81% 142 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 691 67% 550 Pts	64-Core 699 43% 699 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% 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: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 113 Parallax 95.6 82% 103 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 93.4 Splatting 95 78% 95 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 273GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2801 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 298 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 70 67 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 516 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2455452781	85.7% Excellent	Read 379 Write 331 Mixed 326 77% 345 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 58.9 4K Mixed 36.8 134% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 109 107% 174 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	146% Outstanding	Read 1,181 Write 458 Mixed 762 176% 800 MB/s	4K Read 40.7 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 44.7 184% 69.5 MB/s	DQ Read 460 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 172 170% 279 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 146% Great: 243%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 180 7666 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2567 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8058 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 382 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 144 144 168801 (C2) HDA temperature 123 104 29 (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	44.5% Average	Read 73.9 Write 81.6 Mixed 69.6 56% 75 MB/s	4K Read 0.01 4K Write 0.63 4K Mixed 0.04 16% 0.22 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 101%
JetFlash Transcend 64GB 3,351 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 59GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	35% Below average	Read 105 Write 70.7 Mixed 32.3 78% 69.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.4 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.94 86% 2.44 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3333 C16 4x16GB 211 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.7% Very good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 23.4 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 22.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 149%

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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	351x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	46x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 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 $109Bench 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	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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