MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 29 '17 at 21:39
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 83.1 1-Core 112 2-Core 228 79% 141 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 448 60% 450 Pts	64-Core 451 28% 451 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	61.2% Good	Lighting 78.4 Reflection 54.3 Parallax 99.9 64% 77.6 fps	MRender 56.1 Gravity 74.7 Splatting 72.1 56% 67.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 454GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41320RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1345 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 543 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21627171 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 826 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 47 201864839204 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 356485038163 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3243 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5976 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5571 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6187 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	70.9% Very good	Read 482 Write 236 Mixed 266 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 20.2 85% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 7.15 74% 178 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 107%
Sandisk U100 128GB 2,261 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 50GB free Firmware: 10.56.04 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 100 100 552 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4326 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 66 (AE) Unknown 100 100 93 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 220 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 363 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11234230968 (F2) Unknown 100 100 23745502011	37.2% Below average	Read 450 Write 119 Mixed 223 58% 264 MB/s	4K Read 17.1 4K Write 9.47 4K Mixed 5.66 38% 10.7 MB/s	DQ Read 36.6 DQ Write 9.5 DQ Mixed 5.87 9% 17.3 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 55%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 667GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37696648 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 758 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17275333 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1806 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 784 (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 64 60 622526500 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10658 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 77309411364 (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 -78615081384635 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16570084121 (F2) Unknown 100 253 195495337448	77.8% Very good	Read 114 Write 156 Mixed 134 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.31 4K Mixed 0.46 180% 2.17 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 108%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 145GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 233 (03) Spinup time 152 150 3391 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1951 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8336 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1926 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 154 154 140013 (C2) HDA temperature 109 90 34 (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	51.4% Above average	Read 86 Write 92.8 Mixed 73.9 63% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F4-3000C15-8GVKB 04CD F4-3000C15-8GVRB 04CD F4-3000C15-8GVKB 04CD F4-3000C15-8GVRB 32GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.4% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 25.5 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.9 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 99%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,453x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,153x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $601

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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