MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 90.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.6% 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	62.3% 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, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151022
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '18 at 04:04
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	Memory 90.8 1-Core 136 2-Core 271 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 522 8-Core 542 71% 532 Pts	64-Core 543 34% 543 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 100 92% 110 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 102 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 233GB free Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6983 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1331 (B1) Unknown 98 98 7 (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 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 89 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3456789295	63.4% Good	Read 479 Write 267 Mixed 278 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 62.1 4K Mixed 13 89% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 65.4 DQ Mixed 12.8 20% 35.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 114%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 144GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7017 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1331 (B1) Unknown 85 85 72 (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 66 48 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 123 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31989181278	62.3% Good	Read 479 Write 267 Mixed 276 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 32.7 4K Mixed 14.8 75% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28.7 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 10.6 36% 73.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 114%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 2TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40755832 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2797 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13650014 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3219 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 575 (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 69 58 588447775 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11642 (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 8512625182840 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6399284267 (F2) Unknown 100 253 138880881666	99.5% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 161 Mixed 162 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.67 200% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 103%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 264GB free Firmware: 1A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 161 158 6933 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12169 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 7 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 29111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6419 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 571 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12162 (C2) HDA temperature 120 95 30 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.2% Average	Read 83.8 Write 76.9 Mixed 76.5 60% 79.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.32 99% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G 0420 F4-2133C15-8GRR KHX2133C14D4/8G 0420 F4-2133C15-8GRR 32GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 25.4 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 79%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) Builds (Compare 1,236 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $219Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	556x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	364x
Core i7-6700Intel $219Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	74x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	70x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	57x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	63x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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