MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.4% 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	63.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A12
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160512
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	May 17 '18 at 10:08
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 92.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 265 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 519 8-Core 513 69% 516 Pts	64-Core 508 31% 508 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 85%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8596) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 113 Parallax 101 86% 106 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 97.3 Splatting 101 82% 99.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 88%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7A12) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.98% Terrible	Lighting 8.33 Reflection 12 Parallax 8.38 7% 9.57 fps	MRender 12 Gravity 7.5 Splatting 16.6 10% 12 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.98% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1394 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8863 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 481 (64) Unknown 100 100 10596128 (65) Unknown 100 100 1328896 (AA) Unknown 100 100 35 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 3214 (B2) Unknown 100 100 3 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1295 (B7) Unknown 97 97 31 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1385 (C2) HDA temperature 21 100 171799609365 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1394 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 35 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 9 (E7) Temperature 92 92 8 (E9) Unknown 100 100 19581 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7496 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15923 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7474 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 38263	63.6% Good	Read 479 Write 167 Mixed 130 56% 259 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 11.5 86% 30 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 10.7 63% 149 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 146GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 95459093 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25946875 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8888 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 512 (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 80 54 336330772 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4251 (C2) HDA temperature 20 12 51539607572 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 95459093 (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 -72593537230000 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9742783996 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11932390538	85.7% Excellent	Read 166 Write 133 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 112%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 90GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 175 6150 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28215 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 214 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 263 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 139 139 184152 (C2) HDA temperature 132 105 18 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	35% Below average	Read 63.7 Write 57.9 Mixed 60.3 46% 60.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.13 58% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 35% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905622-058.A00G 2x8GB 2,759 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	71.6% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 21.5 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 22.1 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 74%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A12) - $127

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,434x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	628x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	530x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	327x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	309x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	126x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	69x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	129x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	88x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	85x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $577

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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 $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