MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 7% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.78% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	83.3% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 20:27
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$139 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 80.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 223 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 452 60% 452 Pts	64-Core 451 28% 451 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7971) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4624 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	3.78% Terrible	Lighting 2.57 Reflection 4.92 Parallax 6.03 2% 4.51 fps	MRender 5.48 Gravity 5.7 Splatting 12.8 7% 7.99 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.78% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7571 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1589 (B1) Unknown 97 97 26 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 126 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17932790296	83.3% Excellent	Read 501 Write 334 Mixed 346 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 20.9 128% 44.6 MB/s	DQ Read 42.1 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 20.4 47% 92 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 118%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 92 152 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9270 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1169 (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 91 91 47827 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 92 152 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 442 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 66 421068825 (C2) HDA temperature 75 64 215169433625 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 345085 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 99 6 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	58.9% Above average	Read 101 Write 104 Mixed 111 80% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.38 96% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 195964992 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3138 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5133582 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4455 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 863 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 8654680 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 46 555745313 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 170 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6268 (C2) HDA temperature 33 54 60129542177 (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 -109427176767088 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3322627127 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1846620050	87.6% Excellent	Read 167 Write 139 Mixed 153 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 114%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 931GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 113 102 7341 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16986 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 13 13 63922 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 474 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 11 11 567782 (C2) HDA temperature 114 85 33 (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	58.4% Above average	Read 107 Write 96.8 Mixed 84.2 72% 95.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.31 95% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 51%
Seagate ST3500620AS 1TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 926GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 74 74 8650 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 521 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10380 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 70094 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 214 (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 71 58 488439837 (C2) HDA temperature 70 56 505217054 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 33568 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	65.4% Good	Read 115 Write 113 Mixed 125 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.56 136% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x4GB 12,708 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2195 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	35.9% Below average	MC Read 12.5 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 10.4 34% 11.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 11.5 SC Mixed 11.7 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 79.3 50% 79.3 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 80%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971) - $350

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,113x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	721x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	420x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	434x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	366x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	270x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	152x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	79x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	101x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	89x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	75x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $807

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16