MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	82.4% 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	167% 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	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-7970
Motherboard	MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170418
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 23:19
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 91.8 1-Core 147 2-Core 292 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 530 8-Core 784 82% 657 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 98.5 86% 104 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 95.1 Splatting 88.9 75% 92 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Cx2-8b256-q11 NVMe LITEON 256GB 2,143 User benchmarks, average bench 168% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 48811QC Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	167% Outstanding	Read 1,648 Write 573 Mixed 766 217% 996 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 44 194% 73.6 MB/s	DQ Read 44.6 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 30 66% 126 MB/s
Poor: 115% ↑ This bench: 167% Great: 208%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 431GB free Firmware: HP73 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 170405328 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2539 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 24 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 225945992 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22931 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 977 (B4) Unknown 100 100 627080902 (B7) Unknown 1 1 249 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 571670560 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 22 170405328 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 24 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	72.8% Very good	Read 130 Write 124 Mixed 114 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.35 89% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 74GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 1560561 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4814 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 342645551 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 783 (B7) Unknown 59 59 41 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 588513313 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 68719476769 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 19 1560561 (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 90984587241389 (F1) Unknown 100 253 703226931 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4075008828	58.5% Above average	Read 104 Write 99.8 Mixed 104 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.43 96% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD2 859B BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 16GB 117 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 30.4 MC Mixed 24.2 79% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 31.5 SC Mixed 25.1 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 84%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK AC (MS-7970)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	137x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	78x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	45x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x
750 EVO 500GBSamsungBench 103%, 31,052 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	18x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	14x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

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