MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 98.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.6% 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	141% 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	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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171207
Uptime	10.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '18 at 09:23
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.1% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 146 2-Core 291 98% 178 Pts	4-Core 571 8-Core 581 77% 576 Pts	64-Core 580 36% 580 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 98.1% 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: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 114 95% 117 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 105 Splatting 106 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 500GB 13,939 User benchmarks, average bench 179% 204GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,008 Write 958 Mixed 1,011 222% 993 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 52.7 188% 66.6 MB/s	DQ Read 416 DQ Write 498 DQ Mixed 213 228% 376 MB/s
Poor: 82% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 313%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 173GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TA Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2511 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 7012 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1435 (64) Unknown 100 100 4908288 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 74 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 244813987873 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2511 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 1078 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 2511 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9930 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9045 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10182 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 11789	141% Outstanding	Read 1,201 Write 643 Mixed 793 194% 879 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 95.3 4K Mixed 18 134% 51.2 MB/s	DQ Read 437 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 18.9 100% 233 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 159%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 347GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 59296176 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1434 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10213236 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6949 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1412 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 80 62 336789524 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21088 (C2) HDA temperature 20 40 42949672980 (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 127938485818173 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19445745838 (F2) Unknown 100 253 38151983771	92.2% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 139 Mixed 169 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.21 68% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 218GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 36092392 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2052 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 3837870 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1915 (B7) Unknown 92 92 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 8590067130 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 79 59 353632277 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 243 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22963 (C2) HDA temperature 21 41 47244640277 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 93 1998 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 39543763900019 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8580706994 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19865500511	61.3% Good	Read 122 Write 91.7 Mixed 95.1 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.52 4K Mixed 0.22 56% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 218GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 16677008 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 255 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3184209 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1556 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 255 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 79 65 353566741 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5263 (C2) HDA temperature 21 40 47244640277 (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 -123420180216875 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5295167207 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3119627399	64.1% Good	Read 110 Write 113 Mixed 114 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.19 83% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 5,939 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 36.9 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 33.8 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 30.9 88% 30.9 GB/s	Latency 50.5 79% 50.5 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 102%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,674x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	365x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	361x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	63x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

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