MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	53.6% 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	334% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170425
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 17 '17 at 11:43
Run Duration	348 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 131 2-Core 261 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 726 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 719 44% 719 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1405 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Lighting 67.1 Reflection 67.4 Parallax 61 55% 65.2 fps	MRender 72.6 Gravity 63 Splatting 56.8 52% 64.1 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 468GB free Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th 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 6233 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1363 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 142 (A3) Unknown 100 100 57 (A4) Unknown 100 100 115526 (A5) Unknown 100 100 168 (A6) Unknown 100 100 21 (A7) Unknown 100 100 56 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 40 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 540 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 544 (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 5 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 920421 (F2) Unknown 100 100 990406 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1848416	99.7% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 391 Mixed 440 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 32.2 142% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 22 87% 191 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 105%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 222GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 26522861 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 7395933688435 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 384 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 299 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 45 1017910198302 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 1017910198302 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 26522861 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 26522861 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 26522861 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22752 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3156 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3156 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3248 (F4) Unknown 95 95 10616994	69.4% Good	Read 513 Write 193 Mixed 253 70% 320 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 13.7 119% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.8 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 46.9 44% 65.6 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 85%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 414GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	334% Outstanding	Read 3,121 Write 2,459 Mixed 2,460 596% 2,680 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 28.9 169% 65.5 MB/s	DQ Read 42.5 DQ Write 384 DQ Mixed 29.4 77% 152 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 334% Great: 182%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 220GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Read 822 Write 323 Mixed 436 115% 527 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 72.6 4K Mixed 6.33 84% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 27.1 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 11.5 35% 70.7 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 133%
Fujitsu MHW2160BH PL 160GB 757 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 149GB free Firmware: 0101 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	25.3% Poor	Read 43.5 Write 44.5 Mixed 38.6 32% 42.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.26 66% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 26%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$41 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 149GB free Firmware: 0101 Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	44.7% Average	Read 79.2 Write 76.3 Mixed 70 56% 75.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.34 98% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 59%
WDC WD60 EZRZ-00RWYB1 6TB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.8% Good	Read 147 Write 143 Mixed 134 181% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.99 4K Mixed 0.25 113% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 62%
HGST HTS 721010A9E630 1TB 26 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 852GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	47.9% Average	Read 115 Write 118 Mixed 61.2 121% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.22 69% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 52%
Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 500GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 354GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	36% Below average	Read 84.4 Write 82.6 Mixed 71.8 101% 79.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.36 76% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 37%
WDC WD50 00AAVS-00ZTB0 500GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 115GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	25.5% Poor	Read 51.9 Write 51.1 Mixed 50.1 66% 51 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.32 87% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 25.5% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3333 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 42.4 MC Mixed 33.6 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.8 SC Write 46.7 SC Mixed 31.7 96% 33.7 GB/s	Latency 50.6 79% 50.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 104%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) - $180

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,681x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	324x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	366x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	365x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	184x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	124x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	64x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $697

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	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