MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	80.9% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Jul 31 '17 at 08:47
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 656 67% 540 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 202 Parallax 198 148% 194 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 181 Splatting 123 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 131GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9526 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 250 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 183 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1638452 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 75 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11427	80.9% Excellent	Read 515 Write 354 Mixed 355 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 64.5 4K Mixed 10.4 94% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 313 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 9.67 78% 184 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 97%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 117GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 20052258 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 35089882808604 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 42 68722229275 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 68722229275 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20052258 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20052258 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20052258 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294962176 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4390960	71.8% Very good	Read 505 Write 201 Mixed 232 68% 313 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 20.3 111% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 86.2 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 51 66% 114 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 619GB free Firmware: SM36 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 125054240 (03) Spinup time 98 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3173 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20800315 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9623 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 427 (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 75 58 622264345 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18878 (C2) HDA temperature 25 42 68719476761 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	62.1% Good	Read 108 Write 107 Mixed 98.1 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 5 4K Mixed 0.68 187% 2.05 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 65%
WD Blue 750GB (2008)-$72 4,659 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 466GB free Firmware: 30.04G30 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 183 7683 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4084 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 927 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4092 (C2) HDA temperature 120 89 32 (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	32.6% Below average	Read 71.3 Write 42 Mixed 59 43% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.26 71% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 32.6% Great: 52%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 4x8GB 1,060 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.4% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.3 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 22.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 109%

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Typical H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 399 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 39%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI H170A GAMING PRO (MS-7978)

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	98x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	70x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	67x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	59x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	33x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	37x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	22x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	21x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	16x

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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) $30	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