MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 141% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 122% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	142% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	255% 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.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	27.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170425
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Sep 17 '17 at 17:44
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (71^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99% Outstanding	Memory 94.3 1-Core 150 2-Core 297 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 558 8-Core 829 86% 694 Pts	64-Core 826 51% 826 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 3002 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	Lighting 202 Reflection 220 Parallax 194 165% 206 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 192 Splatting 138 127% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 243GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	255% Outstanding	Read 2,011 Write 1,386 Mixed 1,200 339% 1,532 MB/s	4K Read 60 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 50.6 230% 83.3 MB/s	DQ Read 592 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 197 219% 377 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 255% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 202GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16211 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1232 (B1) Unknown 98 98 19 (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 72 55 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 274 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23606783025	101% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 350 Mixed 357 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 85.8 4K Mixed 30.1 155% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 97.6 129% 237 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 126%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 514GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 143 143 34386084240 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3011 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1764 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1764 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 231929413658 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	68.1% Good	Read 117 Write 121 Mixed 139 95% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.24 97% 1 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 107%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 452GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 132 123 6358 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9438 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 34857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2774 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 107847 (C2) HDA temperature 121 90 26 (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	61% Good	Read 109 Write 103 Mixed 91.5 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.27 88% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 59%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 280GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9298 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7620 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29200 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2540 (BF) G-sense error rate 97 97 38545 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 47 227633725465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2540 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7658	65.7% Good	Read 95.3 Write 133 Mixed 109 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.41 110% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 304GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204765042 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7112 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22588884 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16696 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2445 (B7) Unknown 35 35 65 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 21475164248 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 48 437518362 (C2) HDA temperature 26 52 34359738394 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 20 204765042 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 88 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 21221433437959 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2075760323 (F2) Unknown 100 253 306712028	59.6% Above average	Read 102 Write 105 Mixed 94.6 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.42 107% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 68%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 196GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 234918312 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2488 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26260447 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 531 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 420675609 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10296 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 73014444057 (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 80595061313840 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37895254723 (F2) Unknown 100 253 366807717830	60.3% Good	Read 94 Write 115 Mixed 86.1 74% 98.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.6 186% 2.13 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 94%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 4x8GB 3,576 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2992 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 30.2 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 41.1 SC Mixed 29.6 85% 29.9 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 99%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,671x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	364x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	360x
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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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