MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	99.9% 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.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 08 '18 at 14:50
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 135 2-Core 271 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 532 8-Core 535 71% 534 Pts	64-Core 532 33% 532 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14808 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1985 (B1) Unknown 96 96 47 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 71 58 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 292 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30913869275	99.9% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 352 Mixed 358 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 77.8 4K Mixed 29.8 151% 51.5 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 93.4 126% 232 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 126%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 119GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 179 8025 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7585 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 35049 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3476 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 391 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 39 39 485451 (C2) HDA temperature 130 99 22 (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 200 200 165 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	29.5% Poor	Read 58.7 Write 43.8 Mixed 50.7 38% 51.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.29 90% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 51%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 95GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 81 81 6470 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7064 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3686 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 86 66 235798542 (C2) HDA temperature 82 65 302907410 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 307811 (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 97 94 52 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	41.9% Average	Read 70.2 Write 75.7 Mixed 105 64% 83.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.33 73% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 41.9% Great: 59%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 40GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 68 68 10450 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6962 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3212 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 86 61 235798542 (C2) HDA temperature 80 60 336461844 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 32432 (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 99 99 833 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	34.8% Below average	Read 81.4 Write 39.5 Mixed 43 41% 54.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.4 106% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3075 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 36.7 MC Write 41.1 MC Mixed 33 106% 36.9 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 39.4 SC Mixed 30.5 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 50.9 79% 50.9 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 103%

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Typical Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) Builds (Compare 1,227 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

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Workstation 38%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	222x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	73x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	61x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Total price: $778

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $185	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