MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 55% Gunboat


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 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	55.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	97.1% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A11
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170427
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 04:26
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

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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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 160 2-Core 318 105% 192 Pts	4-Core 557 8-Core 864 88% 710 Pts	64-Core 863 53% 863 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% XFX(1682 9480) CLim: 1288 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.3.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	Lighting 71.4 Reflection 67.7 Parallax 84.6 58% 74.5 fps	MRender 68.2 Gravity 67.2 Splatting 55.8 51% 63.7 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8697 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3797 (B1) Unknown 95 95 54 (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 66 44 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1795 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35328179894	97.1% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 350 Mixed 354 89% 404 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 81.3 4K Mixed 26.3 146% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 84.9 118% 219 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 118%
Mushkin ECO3 480GB-$155 2,300 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 79GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd 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 100 100 438 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1577 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 150 (A3) Unknown 100 100 20 (A4) Unknown 100 100 17037 (A5) Unknown 100 100 40 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 17 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 200 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 213175 (F2) Unknown 100 100 760924 (F5) Unknown 100 100 136296	78.9% Very good	Read 494 Write 264 Mixed 274 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 66.2 4K Mixed 28.3 128% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 40.4 51% 85.1 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 101%
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 38GB free Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4277710 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 134166188402554 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3048 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 140 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 64427655198 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4277710 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4277710 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4277710 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16694 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15335 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15335 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25781	75.5% Very good	Read 508 Write 148 Mixed 227 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 21.4 138% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 46 60% 106 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 186153472 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 581 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12666641 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 577 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 51 605421600 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 871 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 68719476768 (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 58914066400721 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13387500418 (F2) Unknown 100 253 245409290006	99.3% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 167 Mixed 167 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.17 67% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 114%
HGST Travelstar 7K750 2.5" 750GB-$77 8,773 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 406GB free Firmware: JF4OA200 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 181 181 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2697 (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 85 85 6618 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2669 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 131072 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 197067 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 236223660066 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	49.6% Average	Read 87.2 Write 85.6 Mixed 96.1 68% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.19 70% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 28.2 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 39.3 SC Mixed 31.9 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 49.2 81% 49.2 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 105%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	606x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	496x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	119x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	345x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	169x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	154x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	90x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	70x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	44x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	102x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	79x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	61x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

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