MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	74.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7998
Motherboard	MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998) (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160523
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 02 '16 at 08:19
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (47^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 125 2-Core 243 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 631 62% 508 Pts	64-Core 682 42% 682 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.4% Very good	Lighting 95.3 Reflection 101 Parallax 90.8 78% 95.8 fps	MRender 85.8 Gravity 86.5 Splatting 79 68% 83.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Synology iSCSI Storage 537GB 127 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 266GB free Firmware: 3.1 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	57.2% Above average	Read 110 Write 85.7 Mixed 83 70% 92.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.94 4K Write 7.7 4K Mixed 7.03 1,129% 6.56 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 57%
Hitachi HTS722010K9SA00 100GB 322 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC2ZC75A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 116 116 3382 (03) Spinup time 253 253 34359738368 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1901 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 30 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 15004 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1526 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 473825353 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 251244 (C2) HDA temperature 137 137 201863790632 (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	28.5% Poor	Read 49.1 Write 50.5 Mixed 43.8 36% 47.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.26 40% 0.23 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x8GB 17,846 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39.3% Below average	MC Read 13.5 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 11 36% 12.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 13.1 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 86%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A SLI (MS-7998)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	178x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	156x
Core i7-7700KIntel $232Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	51x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	40x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $330Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	44x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	17x
F4 DDR4 3733 C17 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 97%, 572 samples	16x

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