MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971)

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 35% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	61.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	87.5% 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.

System	MSI MS-7971
Motherboard	MSI Z170A PC MATE (MS-7971) (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160727
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 02:54
Run Duration	225 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	66.6% Good	Memory 82.1 1-Core 103 2-Core 211 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 276 8-Core 439 44% 358 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AB) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Lighting 77.3 Reflection 75.8 Parallax 62.4 63% 71.8 fps	MRender 71.4 Gravity 70.7 Splatting 69.3 58% 70.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 373GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 56 56 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 220881811	91.8% Outstanding	Read 472 Write 377 Mixed 383 91% 411 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 74.7 4K Mixed 31.7 124% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 91.6 118% 214 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 35324 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2134 (B1) Unknown 97 97 36 (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 62 44 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 168 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31183376114	87.5% Excellent	Read 494 Write 329 Mixed 341 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 63.3 4K Mixed 20.9 124% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 76.9 108% 202 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8271336 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 622 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 6194 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 65 60 589103139 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 736 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 94489280547 (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 139491947839501 (F1) Unknown 100 253 35454421 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5292501	109% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 182 Mixed 177 140% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.22 93% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 792GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 63196592 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 638 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 163551 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 69 60 521797663 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 761 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 94489280543 (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 -71893457567727 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2327314793 (F2) Unknown 100 253 279984729	108% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 187 Mixed 170 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$63 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 584GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 197 0 (03) Spinup time 162 159 6875 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 437 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 603 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 437 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 34 (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	35.9% Below average	Read 67.6 Write 57.3 Mixed 58.9 46% 61.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.34 90% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 57%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$60 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 411GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217681512 (03) Spinup time 96 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15450 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4328166014 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19057 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1987 (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 59 46 73704341545 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48732 (C2) HDA temperature 41 54 -140737488355287 (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 95747705934283 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21779480389 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33575251372	67.8% Good	Read 125 Write 111 Mixed 109 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.31 72% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot PSD48G21332 2x8GB 303 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	38.8% Below average	MC Read 13.6 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 12.4 38% 13.3 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 10.4 29% 10.3 GB/s	Latency 76.8 52% 76.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 38.8% Great: 79%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,116x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	723x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	421x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	436x
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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	82x
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 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16