MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	282% 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.

Very high background CPU (84%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	59.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180626
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '22 at 20:34
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	84%

PC Performing as expected (50^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 80.7 1-Core 104 2-Core 160 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 331 8-Core 543 53% 437 Pts	64-Core 623 38% 623 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 3060-$266 447,556 User benchmarks, average bench 100% MSI(1462 397D) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3750 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 472.88 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	105% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 129 Parallax 126 114% 132 fps	MRender 144 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 93.1 89% 112 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 106%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Nvme Samsung SSD 980 2TB 916 User benchmarks, average bench 331% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: 5B2QGXA7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1260 1802 1949 2053 2059 2102 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	282% Outstanding	Read 1,831 Write 1,954 Mixed 2,124 SusWrite 1,871 440% 1,945 MB/s	4K Read 53.8 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 71.3 213% 67.2 MB/s	DQ Read 822 DQ Write 383 DQ Mixed 791 536% 665 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 282% Great: 528%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$39 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 161 174 172 173 175 173 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 157 Mixed 103 SusWrite 171 116% 158 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 1.2 235% 1.73 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3400 C16 4x16GB 62 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	72.6% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.8 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 28.5 SC Mixed 20.9 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 79.3 50% 79.3 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 115%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	355x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	47x
Core i7-7700KIntel $249Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	27x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 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	14x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $870

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16