MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

Performance Results


Gaming 132% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 105% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	138% 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	85.1% 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-7970
Motherboard	MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970) (all builds)
Memory	29.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161214
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 31 '17 at 02:48
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 93.1 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 564 8-Core 565 75% 564 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 4471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2950 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Lighting 197 Reflection 213 Parallax 189 161% 200 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 187 Splatting 133 123% 152 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6760 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1723 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (AA) Unknown 100 100 324 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1048614 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 769 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 8 (E7) Temperature 100 100 84 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6047	85.1% Excellent	Read 519 Write 357 Mixed 351 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 10 110% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 9.94 78% 181 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 97%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 112GB free Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	215% Outstanding	Read 2,055 Write 1,145 Mixed 1,397 338% 1,532 MB/s	4K Read 45.5 4K Write 168 4K Mixed 31.7 199% 81.8 MB/s	DQ Read 47 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 31.8 49% 88.7 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 215% Great: 185%
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC064MAG 64GB 1,591 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 47GB free Firmware: 0002 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1035 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 491 (AA) Unknown 100 100 4395 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 39 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1941325218078 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 101 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	46.5% Average	Read 357 Write 70.7 Mixed 118 39% 182 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 67.1 4K Mixed 4.12 94% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.4 DQ Write 66.4 DQ Mixed 22.6 25% 41.5 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 53%
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 41GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3663 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1584 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 43 (AE) Unknown 100 100 569 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 41 253404119078 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 862 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 11261673416 (F7) Unknown 100 100 356751953 (F8) Unknown 100 100 273793291	82.2% Excellent	Read 487 Write 405 Mixed 428 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 26.7 109% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 63 DQ Mixed 33.7 45% 84.6 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 39322193 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1438 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 73069971233 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -111630494987754 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 490 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180131332 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 522125343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 904 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9542 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 51539607583 (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 115762253530376 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18777719510 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16691921309	69.4% Good	Read 125 Write 118 Mixed 112 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.17 63% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4-2400 CL16 8GB 4x8GB 376 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2424 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	83.7% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 26.1 87% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 35 SC Mixed 17.2 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 62 65% 62 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 112%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	137x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	46x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	11x
750 EVO 500GBSamsungBench 103%, 31,052 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	18x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $442

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16