MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results


Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161228
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 00:04
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 146 2-Core 289 98% 177 Pts	4-Core 538 8-Core 549 72% 544 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB; SC2 Hybrid CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 207 Parallax 200 151% 198 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 180 Splatting 132 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 136GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19476 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 388 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 91 (EB) Unknown 99 99 196 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15513098490	121% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 423 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 52.5 197% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 120 146% 259 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2831 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 179 (B1) Unknown 99 99 21 (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 64 58 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 98 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9538696540	108% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 408 Mixed 420 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 45.3 183% 66.8 MB/s	DQ Read 45 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 25.3 61% 118 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 548GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5283 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27064 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 624 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 445 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4846 (C2) HDA temperature 118 82 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 15392 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	82.4% Excellent	Read 140 Write 147 Mixed 135 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 1.29 4K Write 2.75 4K Mixed 0.27 135% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 420GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 87 178501770 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7532 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 34899037387 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 45727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1110 (B7) Unknown 1 1 460 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 16343 (BC) Unknown 100 77 34360328630 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 44 6116504698908 (C2) HDA temperature 28 56 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 21 178501770 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 437 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -139397458515723 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4166257845 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1914027590	53.6% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 92.2 Mixed 89 69% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.38 99% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$33 14,163 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3333 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.7 MC Write 41.1 MC Mixed 30.9 104% 36.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.3 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 31.5 87% 30.3 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 95%

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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 $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	152x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 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 $109Bench 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 $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

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