MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.2% 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	86.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170425
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '17 at 19:50
Run Duration	231 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 621 66% 524 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 118 Parallax 102 95% 112 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 101 Splatting 102 82% 99.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 240GB-$170 1,466 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC02.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^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 1579 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 459 (A2) Unknown 100 100 335 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 983089 (AE) Unknown 100 100 192 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 192 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3119 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3390	86.1% Excellent	Read 524 Write 375 Mixed 423 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 12.9 120% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 45.7 76% 138 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 115%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 15GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 70 70 4197142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 135772506173980 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2468 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 228 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4197142 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4197142 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4197142 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11424 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10211 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10211 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15001	71.2% Very good	Read 491 Write 154 Mixed 200 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 10.9 126% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 36.6 60% 115 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 82%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 123GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 2375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1597 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 883 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 333 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1265 (C2) HDA temperature 120 98 23 (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	56.4% Above average	Read 128 Write 68.3 Mixed 110 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.29 99% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 109%
WD WD7500AAVS-00D7B0 750GB 1,285 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 68GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 111 106 7416 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2688 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7949 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1133 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 500 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 40632 (C2) HDA temperature 121 93 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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.3% Average	Read 73.2 Write 77.4 Mixed 60 52% 70.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.23 76% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 50%
WD WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 500GB 13,629 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 63GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 165 160 4725 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3454 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10781 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1036 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 391 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 37144 (C2) HDA temperature 121 84 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	30.3% Below average	Read 49.5 Write 55.7 Mixed 51 39% 52.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.32 89% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 44%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 47GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 174 4025 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6608 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2910 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 451 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6156 (C2) HDA temperature 120 96 27 (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	53.7% Above average	Read 112 Write 74.6 Mixed 94.2 71% 93.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.32 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair ValueSelect DDR4 2133 C15 1x16GB 1,735 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	42.1% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 11.9 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 14.3 40% 14.1 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 43%

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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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Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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