MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976)

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 91.6%, 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	249% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7976
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M7 (MS-7976) (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170425
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 16 '17 at 22:24
Run Duration	404 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.6 1-Core 128 2-Core 256 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 488 8-Core 710 75% 599 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.6% 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: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.6% Above average	Lighting 67.8 Reflection 67.2 Parallax 59.8 55% 64.9 fps	MRender 72.3 Gravity 62.9 Splatting 53.9 51% 63 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% 423GB free Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^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 6231 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1359 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 142 (A3) Unknown 100 100 57 (A4) Unknown 100 100 115345 (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 100 100 539 (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 919552 (F2) Unknown 100 100 989581 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1845520	101% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 393 Mixed 446 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 35.8 143% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 63.8 106% 203 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 105%
MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$60 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 149% 219GB free Firmware: E7FM03.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 2,414 Write 1,354 Mixed 1,650 399% 1,806 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 28.9 166% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 42.3 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 153 97% 107 MB/s
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 204%
MyDigitalSSD BPX NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$60 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 149% 201GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM03.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	249% Outstanding	Read 2,423 Write 1,362 Mixed 1,483 387% 1,756 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 51.2 191% 70.2 MB/s	DQ Read 42.5 DQ Write 407 DQ Mixed 28.7 80% 159 MB/s
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 249% Great: 204%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 107GB free Firmware: S9FM02.6 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 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11011 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 629 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 34 (AD) Unknown 100 100 178061411 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7188299	58.1% Above average	Read 454 Write 167 Mixed 231 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 66.6 4K Mixed 5.36 91% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 85.6 DQ Mixed 8.56 32% 71.5 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 83%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 106GB free Firmware: S9FM02.6 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 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4137 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 345 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 24 (AD) Unknown 100 100 29360160 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3798172	57.9% Above average	Read 435 Write 171 Mixed 234 61% 280 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 66.3 4K Mixed 6.72 93% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 83.2 DQ Mixed 7.44 29% 65.1 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 83%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 213GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3723160 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 92058329027173 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 380 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 295 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 45 1017910198301 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 1017910198301 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3723160 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3723160 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3723160 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 22742 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3148 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3148 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3235 (F4) Unknown 95 95 10616994	66.5% Good	Read 502 Write 215 Mixed 251 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 18.1 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 13.4 100% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 31.6 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 12.7 36% 72.8 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 85%
Fujitsu MHW2160BH PL 160GB 757 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 149GB free Firmware: 0101 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	25% Poor	Read 43.9 Write 43.2 Mixed 43 33% 43.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.28 67% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 25% Great: 26%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$30 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 149GB free Firmware: 0101 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	43.8% Average	Read 78.4 Write 74 Mixed 70.4 56% 74.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.36 97% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 43.8% 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 (85^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Read 143 Write 143 Mixed 134 180% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.27 99% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 60.1% 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 (77^th percentile)	47.3% Average	Read 115 Write 117 Mixed 102 143% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 52%
Hitachi HDP725050GLA360 500GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 354GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	36.6% Below average	Read 86.5 Write 82.5 Mixed 81.2 107% 83.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.36 81% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 36.6% Great: 37%
WDC WD50 00AAVS-00ZTB0 500GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 115GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 51.2 Write 51.5 Mixed 51.2 66% 51.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.23 4K Mixed 0.29 88% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$37 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	76.6% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 23.4 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 104%

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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	1,679x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	324x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 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 $98Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	82x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	64x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $736

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16