MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 121% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 103% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 95.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% 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	233% 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '18 at 20:39
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing as expected (59^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)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 94 1-Core 140 2-Core 278 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 525 8-Core 775 81% 650 Pts	64-Core 772 48% 772 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 198 Parallax 188 144% 187 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 165 Splatting 125 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 111GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5276521 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 35201551968115 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1495 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 209 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 42 64427261984 (C2) HDA temperature 32 42 64427261984 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5276521 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5276521 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5276521 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 87 87 77309411328 (E9) Unknown 0 0 61862 (EA) Unknown 0 0 50557 (F1) Unknown 0 0 50557 (F2) Unknown 0 0 20627 (F4) Unknown 84 84 33292796	69% Good	Read 498 Write 117 Mixed 175 57% 263 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 15.6 128% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 35.8 51% 93.8 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 73%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 42GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM04.C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	233% Outstanding	Read 1,984 Write 1,165 Mixed 1,313 329% 1,487 MB/s	4K Read 45.5 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 47 204% 77.8 MB/s	DQ Read 529 DQ Write 411 DQ Mixed 125 187% 355 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 233% Great: 185%
WD Black 2.5" 750GB (2011)-$87 21,339 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 19GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 400 (03) Spinup time 193 163 1316 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8013 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19270 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5150 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 880 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 131 131 209415 (C2) HDA temperature 109 92 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	38.9% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 71.4 Mixed 69.4 52% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.25 73% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 38.9% Great: 71%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 8GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 130 4141 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5056 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9952 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1479 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 165 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 131 131 209346 (C2) HDA temperature 110 100 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45.9% Average	Read 94.8 Write 64.9 Mixed 88.5 63% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.22 87% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$60 17,279 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.1% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 21.2 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 29.7 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 111%

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Typical Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) Builds (Compare 4,881 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) - $140

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,447x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,150x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	850x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $601

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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