MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	120% 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.

System	MSI MS-7970
Motherboard	MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970) (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	640 x 480 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160921
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 22 '16 at 07:34
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	SVN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 132 2-Core 236 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 708 70% 572 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 213GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8819 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 81 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 62 (AE) Unknown 99 99 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1926 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 19 44 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 32200 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10499 (F2) Unknown 99 99 13827	120% Outstanding	Read 763 Write 657 Mixed 721 159% 713 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 29.2 156% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 41.4 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 204 119% 119 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 241%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2015)-$107 691 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29944154 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2000242 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (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 49 48 873857075 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 204 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 51 52 94489280563 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 57 46 29944154 (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 -109534550949881 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4678346246 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2795924	99.8% Outstanding	Read 192 Write 156 Mixed 157 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.42 137% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 117%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 314GB free Firmware: CC26 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 35308944 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 23290562 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 707199016 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34638 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 64424509480 (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 81565723921128 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28812467031 (F2) Unknown 100 253 251729945104	63.5% Good	Read 126 Write 95.1 Mixed 103 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.23 73% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 113%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 125GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 5300 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4829 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 15 15 62448 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4829 (C2) HDA temperature 119 84 31 (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	40.7% Average	Read 72.7 Write 68.5 Mixed 65.7 52% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.48 124% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14/8G KHX2133C14D4/8G KHX2133C14/8G KHX2133C14D4/8G 32GB 295 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.9 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.5 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 79%

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Typical Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970) Builds (Compare 240 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 62%

Destroyer

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A-G43 PLUS (MS-7970)

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	69x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	57x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	37x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	24x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	20x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	17x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	16x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
MX300 525GBCrucial $150Bench 86%, 105,037 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	10x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	7x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $531

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 $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