MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 97% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% 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	94.2% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A16
Motherboard	MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170422
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '18 at 00:17
Run Duration	244 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 82.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 247 86% 155 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 752 72% 594 Pts	64-Core 761 47% 761 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 92%

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: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 207 Parallax 181 155% 193 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 181 Splatting 126 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 88 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 23 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 62 62 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 420284224	94.2% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 407 Mixed 423 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.5 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 26.8 155% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 47 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 26.4 35% 60.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 124%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1.5TB free Firmware: RT17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234153920 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1423 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 4376933555 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8308 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 70 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1441 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 64 33 1035692539940 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10059 (C2) HDA temperature 36 67 77309411364 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 119 99 234153920 (C5) Current pending sector count 47 47 17432 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 47 47 17432 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -6755983554897 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39228883256 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36324877482	45.5% Average	Read 76.5 Write 79.9 Mixed 53.8 52% 70.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 7.68 4K Mixed 0.31 199% 2.84 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 45.5% Great: 87%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 894GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 150 10866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 80 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 88 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 21 (10) Unknown 1 199 32989643492 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 66 (C2) HDA temperature 107 105 45 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	84.4% Excellent	Read 150 Write 144 Mixed 141 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.85 4K Mixed 0.36 133% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 112%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 464GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 340 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 76 3462 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4037 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30620 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 303 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1292 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 107 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 26 317828628511 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 5 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 65126 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 303 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 33 33 684161	40.2% Average	Read 62.8 Write 77.1 Mixed 71.6 53% 70.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.21 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.19 54% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.2% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 82GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219752832 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1851 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17172234 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10872 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1719 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 262149 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 37 29356774064167 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 386 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1904 (C2) HDA temperature 39 63 73014444071 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 8 219752832 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -96228742255881 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1739283488 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3622655623
Poor: 32% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$63 6,179 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.9% Good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 19.1 65% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 17.1 44% 15.4 GB/s	Latency 75.4 53% 75.4 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 102%

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Typical Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16) Builds (Compare 255 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A MPOWER GAMING TITANIUM(MS-7A16)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	134x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	36x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	23x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	11x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $115Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	7x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $613

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 $15	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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