MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 4% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	3.37% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150902
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 07:21
Run Duration	523 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 92.6 1-Core 108 2-Core 204 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 647 62% 514 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 5,568 User benchmarks, average bench 6% XFX(1682 2330) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	3.37% Terrible	Lighting 4.57 Reflection 2.5 Parallax 3.38 4% 3.48 fps	MRender 1.76 Gravity 6.97 Splatting 1.61 3% 3.45 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 3.37% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB-$63 6,344 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 592GB free (System drive) Firmware: MKAOA800 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 93 93 2490368 (02) Throughput performance 130 130 100 (03) Spinup time 127 127 51581026884 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2369 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 135 26 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 29803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2392 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2392 (C2) HDA temperature 125 125 249109348400 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 70 70 719 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3	47.1% Average	Read 87 Write 76.7 Mixed 61.5 56% 75.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.35 99% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 87%
Seagate ST3500830AS 500GB-$145 6,517 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 57GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 84 189806998 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1002 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 35 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 181389468 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42729 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2521 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 58 37 740163626 (C2) HDA temperature 42 63 73014444074 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 60 49 132376066 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	39.9% Below average	Read 66.9 Write 72.1 Mixed 61.7 50% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.35 78% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.9% Great: 44%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 0GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 96 64 (03) Spinup time 93 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3181 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 34554315919 (09) Power-on hours count 28 28 63779 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 705 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 40 40 60 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295098374 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 46 740163627 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 894 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3204 (C2) HDA temperature 43 54 77309411371 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 5 64 (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 65451006680498 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3002983722 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3761490910	35.5% Below average	Read 62.6 Write 61 Mixed 55.7 45% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.63 112% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 75%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 0GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 18 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 48 8943 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2913 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 57383 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 724 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 687 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 48 223339282473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 255 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 6 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 27076	48.8% Average	Read 74.2 Write 95.5 Mixed 72.2 60% 80.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.47 127% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 75%
Samsung G3 Station 1.5TB 635 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 135GB free, PID 6013 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	17.6% Very poor	Read 36.3 Write 39.2 Mixed 29.4 45% 35 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.27 51% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 20%
Seagate FreeAgent 1.5TB 684 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 61GB free, PID 3001 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Read 36.2 Write 40.3 Mixed 19.1 40% 31.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.35 58% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 20%
Verbatim STORE N GO 16GB 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 2GB free, PID 0302, verbatim Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	3.74% Terrible	Read 15.5 Write 3.93 Mixed 5.23 8% 8.22 MB/s	4K Read 2.7 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.006 10% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.74% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GB-$67 46,617 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.3% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 11.8 39% 13.6 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 13.1 36% 12.5 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 81%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	222x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	73x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	61x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

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