MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.8% 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	62% 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.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170420
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '17 at 22:14
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 89 1-Core 147 2-Core 294 96% 176 Pts	4-Core 522 8-Core 818 83% 670 Pts	64-Core 814 50% 814 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 125 Parallax 108 99% 118 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 110 Splatting 111 90% 110 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
FCCT256M4SSD1 256GB 628 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 238GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^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 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 4294967296 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 87 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 249 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	70.7% Very good	Read 487 Write 259 Mixed 343 80% 363 MB/s	4K Read 19.8 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 4.93 97% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 181 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 5.9 57% 132 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 75%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 142GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2629 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 552 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6661602084445 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 13 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 102 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 38 266287972389 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2332173468191 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1533 (EA) Unknown 100 100 15238 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5128 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7140 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62% Good	Read 486 Write 332 Mixed 192 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 73.1 4K Mixed 2.05 64% 30 MB/s	DQ Read 20.1 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 4.7 35% 75.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 86%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 930GB free Firmware: SC11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 90 83741848 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1719 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 127746535 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3470 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 292 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1970 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 28 72 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 420937753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 103 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1724 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 42949672985 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 80 40 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 80 40 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	79.2% Very good	Read 135 Write 141 Mixed 122 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.2 77% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 100%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 2TB-$121 12,330 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 863GB free Firmware: CV27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160121024 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 544 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 31633597 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2863 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 538 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437780506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 544 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 55834574874 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	95.6% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 163 Mixed 144 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 472GB free Firmware: HP34 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 108040328 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 904 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 44394380 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 676 (B4) Unknown 100 100 449747191 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 50 9027649562 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4380 (C2) HDA temperature 26 50 -140737488355302 (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	94.7% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 166 Mixed 162 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.37 103% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSA.16FADG 2x8GB 569 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 24.2 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 30.7 SC Mixed 12.1 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 87%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 40%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING (MS-7984)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	392x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	308x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	103x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	127x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	87x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	64x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	40x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	35x

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Total price: $520

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