MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.5% 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	135% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	26 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '17 at 02:34
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^th 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 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 274 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 751 75% 612 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 90%

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: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 121 Parallax 105 95% 114 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 106 Splatting 104 85% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 480GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 294GB free Firmware: SAFC Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 5725 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 529 (A2) Unknown 100 100 524 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1769522 (AE) Unknown 100 100 102 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 102 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15656 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20753	103% Outstanding	Read 529 Write 506 Mixed 501 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 14.9 131% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 309 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 69.3 119% 231 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 103%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: B355 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	135% Outstanding	Read 1,513 Write 264 Mixed 341 151% 706 MB/s	4K Read 39.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 21.1 141% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 473 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 36.7 122% 270 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 144%
KINGSTON 60GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 52GB free Firmware: 580A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3287261 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21466246546164 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 796 (0D) Soft read error rate 95 95 3287261 (64) Unknown 0 0 13164 (AA) Unknown 0 0 1616 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 92 (B1) Unknown 0 0 94 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 19 45 1009320263699 (C2) HDA temperature 19 45 1009320263699 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3287261 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 120 120 44929652883456 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3287261 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3287261 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E8) Unknown 0 0 6 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11405 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2947 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2947 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2674	65.1% Good	Read 385 Write 125 Mixed 182 50% 231 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 11.6 132% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 43.4 52% 89.8 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 71%
WD Black 2.5" 750GB (2011)-$87 21,339 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 289GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 486 (03) Spinup time 176 171 2175 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4177 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 922 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 253 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 24172 (C2) HDA temperature 130 87 17 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	66.3% Good	Read 127 Write 104 Mixed 117 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.21 86% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 71%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB 12,182 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 30.6 MC Write 33.7 MC Mixed 27.4 87% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 25.6 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 99%

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Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $150

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	821x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	631x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	227x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	305x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	223x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	74x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	55x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	98x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	71x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $583

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16