MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	98.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160517
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 13 '17 at 03:45
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (62^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 531 8-Core 741 80% 636 Pts	64-Core 743 46% 743 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1630 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.9.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.2% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 88.8 Parallax 171 101% 128 fps	MRender 86.8 Gravity 120 Splatting 129 94% 112 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 152GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11951 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 335 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 64 46 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 229 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11272396762	116% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 417 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 96.3 4K Mixed 50 184% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 130 146% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Intel 330 Series 120GB-$188 11,188 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 46GB free Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -134028748506053 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1686 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1646 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 178559 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 178559 (F2) Unknown 100 100 254255 (F9) Unknown 100 100 5363	71.5% Very good	Read 486 Write 123 Mixed 196 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 19.1 129% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 49.2 68% 125 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 80%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 34GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 23995607 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 42159398997743 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 939 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 818 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 50 47247917087 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 47247917087 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 23995607 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 23995607 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 23995607 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 21474836481 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4216 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2958 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2958 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4615 (F4) Unknown 99 99 5242919	69.6% Good	Read 496 Write 176 Mixed 233 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 14.3 108% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 41.3 70% 135 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd 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 7963 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (64) Unknown 100 100 7010560 (65) Unknown 100 100 719872 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 56 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 2066 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1299 (B7) Unknown 97 97 16 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 210454642723 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12686 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3950 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9027 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5350 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	69.4% Good	Read 464 Write 254 Mixed 261 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 52.5 4K Mixed 11 88% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 29 76% 166 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.9% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 16.3 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 18.4 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 104%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	351x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	46x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	98x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 83%, 15,511 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,380

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