MSI MS-17A1

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	161% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (48%). 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, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star GT73VR 6RE
Motherboard	MSI MS-17A1 (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170505
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '18 at 01:20
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	48%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6820HK 20,362 User benchmarks, average bench 69% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 124 2-Core 243 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 588 60% 486 Pts	64-Core 666 41% 666 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070 (Mobile) 73,882 User benchmarks, average bench 72% MSI(1462 11B7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Lighting 97 Reflection 119 Parallax 90.1 79% 102 fps	MRender 90.1 Gravity 90.2 Splatting 103 78% 94.4 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 82%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 203GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1644 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1000 (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 58 45 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 95 (F1) Unknown 99 99 757172408	114% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 414 Mixed 417 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 95.4 4K Mixed 47.2 181% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 120 134% 229 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 122%
Thnsn5128gpu7 TOSHIBA 128GB 3,510 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 98GB free Firmware: 57XA4104 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1,653 Write 599 Mixed 897 230% 1,050 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 30.4 168% 66.6 MB/s	DQ Read 458 DQ Write 392 DQ Mixed 182 203% 344 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 176%
Thnsn5128gpu7 TOSHIBA 128GB 3,510 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57XA4104 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	161% Outstanding	Read 1,645 Write 546 Mixed 842 221% 1,011 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 51.9 186% 68.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.8 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 27.4 43% 78.5 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 161% Great: 176%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 390GB free Firmware: JB0OA3U0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 137 137 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 633 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 545 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 432 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 20769 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 240518823971 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	63.3% Good	Read 112 Write 109 Mixed 118 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.18 61% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 5,417 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.3% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 24 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 21.2 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 87%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-17A1

CPU
Core i7-7820HKIntelBench 72%, 18,903 samples	259x
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	232x
Core i7-6820HKIntelBench 69%, 20,362 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1080 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 95%, 17,197 samples	357x
GTX 1070 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 72%, 73,882 samples	308x
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	19x

SSD
Raid 0 Volume 512GBIntelBench 191%, 18,578 samples	122x
Raid 0 Volume 256GBIntelBench 120%, 13,747 samples	50x
THNSN5256GPU7 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBToshibaBench 148%, 19,151 samples	44x

RAM
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 20,148 samples	157x
MSI24D4S7D8MB-16 2x16GBKingstonBench 77%, 1,520 samples	95x
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 4x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 831 samples	67x

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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