MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.7% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	9 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '17 at 20:21
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 112 2-Core 215 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 425 56% 423 Pts	64-Core 422 26% 422 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1445) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.6 86% 107 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 93.6 Splatting 98.2 79% 95.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Aireye S2 128GB SSD 39 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 27GB free Firmware: O1225J Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 33 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 281 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 96 (A3) Unknown 100 100 11 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2812 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4811 (F2) Unknown 100 100 14745 (F5) Unknown 100 100 5624	81.7% Excellent	Read 506 Write 308 Mixed 378 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 20.2 106% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 64.5 102% 193 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 100%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 89 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8583 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1064 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5181 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1055 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1002 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	78.1% Very good	Read 152 Write 120 Mixed 124 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.46 124% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 22.2 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 25.7 SC Mixed 20 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 65.4 61% 65.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 80%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI H170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	87x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	55x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	39x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	60x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	21x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	22x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	9x
S11-256G-PHISON-SSD-B3 256GBBench 66%, 104 samples	9x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	22x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	9x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $324

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