MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91.2% 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	270% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jun 04 '18 at 22:22
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 122 2-Core 241 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 642 66% 530 Pts	64-Core 620 38% 620 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gainward(10B0 1B81) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 112 94% 116 fps	MRender 99.7 Gravity 105 Splatting 106 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra 3D 500GB-$69 13,482 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 378GB free Firmware: X61110RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 255 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5374013 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 71 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 385 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 41 176094773278 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 51540262924 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 525 (EA) Unknown 100 100 742 (F1) Unknown 253 253 709 (F2) Unknown 253 253 427 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	85% Excellent	Read 507 Write 347 Mixed 345 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 45.5 4K Mixed 24.3 102% 33.5 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 228 DQ Mixed 52.8 103% 211 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 119%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 16GB free Firmware: R211 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 4582733 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -82652350639908 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1515 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 97 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 34 51541835804 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4582733 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4582733 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4582733 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1554 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1652 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1652 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3040	69.7% Good	Read 508 Write 111 Mixed 193 58% 271 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 20.4 122% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 43.6 62% 116 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 81%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	270% Outstanding	Read 2,601 Write 1,053 Mixed 1,270 359% 1,641 MB/s	4K Read 63 4K Write 148 4K Mixed 70.5 264% 93.8 MB/s	DQ Read 537 DQ Write 398 DQ Mixed 204 224% 380 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 270% Great: 236%
Intenso Sata III 240GB 1,213 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6GB free Firmware: P0330AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 94 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 412 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 24 (A3) Unknown 100 100 263 (94) Unknown 100 100 37444 (95) Unknown 100 100 554 (96) Unknown 100 100 356 (97) Unknown 100 100 512 (A4) Unknown 100 100 14342 (A5) Unknown 100 100 46 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34227133677593 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 57383 (F2) Unknown 100 100 102417 (F5) Unknown 100 100 84707 (F6) Unknown 100 100 74888 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	113% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 452 Mixed 493 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 44.2 164% 61.5 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 85.6 127% 238 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GB 1,517 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 23.5 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 115%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING (MS-7977) - $170

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	174x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	59x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	48x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	32x
RTX 3070Nvidia $400Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	24x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	20x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	13x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $633

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