MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


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 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 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	110% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	49% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 19 '16 at 08:07
Run Duration	416 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 139 2-Core 259 93% 164 Pts	4-Core 493 8-Core 761 78% 627 Pts	64-Core 766 47% 766 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2562 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 151 Parallax 127 122% 142 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 140 Splatting 102 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk SD7SB7S512G1122 512GB 1,543 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 11GB free Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3051 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 771 (A5) Unknown 100 100 335127971384 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 30 (A9) Unknown 100 100 518 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 271 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 62 266288693276 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2478216643137 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8019 (EA) Unknown 100 100 16585 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13653 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7781 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	109% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 452 Mixed 366 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 31 161% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 68.2 114% 224 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 100%
G2242 60GB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0529A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^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 100 100 403 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 124 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 21 (A4) Unknown 100 100 1030754 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1027 (A6) Unknown 100 100 975 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1003 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 159 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 127 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (F1) Unknown 100 100 174827 (F2) Unknown 100 100 77323 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1472353	49% Average	Read 463 Write 78.3 Mixed 133 48% 225 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 78.5 4K Mixed 2.72 81% 34.9 MB/s	DQ Read 89.6 DQ Write 78.2 DQ Mixed 19.1 32% 62.3 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 49% Great: 68%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 730GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 73 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896895151 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5174 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 118 118 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 12829 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3422 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 7649 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 7649 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 176094380059 (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	87.7% Excellent	Read 165 Write 141 Mixed 156 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.17 76% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 107%
PNY USB 3.0 FD 68GB 421 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 63GB free, PID 00ad Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	9.92% Terrible	Read 36.7 Write 5.8 Mixed 14 19% 18.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.08 4K Write 0.77 4K Mixed 0.65 63% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 9.92% Great: 39%
USB Flash Memory 2GB 592 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID 6544 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	3.65% Terrible	Read 11.9 Write 4.88 Mixed 6.69 9% 7.83 MB/s	4K Read 3.39 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 14% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.65% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 74,390 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	52.2% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 17.7 MC Mixed 14.3 48% 16.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 18.6 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 55.1 73% 55.1 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 103%

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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	1,671x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	364x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	361x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	151x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	62x

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Total price: $912

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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