MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.9% 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-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A-G45 GAMING (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150819
Uptime	5.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 04:48
Run Duration	491 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 (97^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 130 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 685 72% 575 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-X-$781 8,241 User benchmarks, average bench 59% AMD(1002 0B36) CLim: 1075 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Lighting 79.7 Reflection 57.8 Parallax 120 65% 86 fps	MRender 59.1 Gravity 89.4 Splatting 75.5 62% 74.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 65%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 330GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2614 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 565 (A5) Unknown 100 100 38669910206 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 719 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 63 270584184864 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 231930986550 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3317 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3915 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3681 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7916 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.8% Excellent	Read 492 Write 281 Mixed 250 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 70.4 4K Mixed 13.9 111% 40.4 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 38.1 93% 198 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 107%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3008 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 649 (A5) Unknown 100 100 68743463206 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 949 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 65 279174184996 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 360780988500 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2022 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6033 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5110 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7509 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.9% Very good	Read 496 Write 207 Mixed 228 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 18.9 117% 41.7 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 41 89% 187 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 108%
Apricorn SATAWire 6G 256GB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 75GB free Firmware: 1411 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	73.6% Very good	Read 394 Write 397 Mixed 403 89% 398 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 37.9 4K Mixed 27.9 86% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 71.8 74% 119 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 74%
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$114 581 User benchmarks, average bench 143% 43GB free Firmware: 1.04 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 1,024 Write 311 Mixed 462 130% 599 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 36.2 158% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 453 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 99.4 138% 259 MB/s
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 164%
Apple HDD HTS541010A9E662 1TB 4,614 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 601GB free Firmware: JA0AB5D0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 166 166 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 594 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2254 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7269 (C2) HDA temperature 206 206 188979675165 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 30	50% Average	Read 87.3 Write 86.8 Mixed 85.2 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.19 69% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 59%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB (2009)-$50 31,419 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 465GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 181 1700 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12239 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11482 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 7137 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 297 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 152 152 144262 (C2) HDA temperature 115 86 32 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 85 85 11535 (F1) Unknown 200 200 34299737001 (F2) Unknown 200 200 46500494169 (FE) Unknown 200 200 0	44.1% Average	Read 79.4 Write 74 Mixed 77.2 58% 76.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.3 77% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 43%
Verbatim STORE N GO 16GB 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 2GB free, PID 0302 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	3.56% Terrible	Read 12.8 Write 2.82 Mixed 3.87 6% 6.49 MB/s	4K Read 4.58 4K Write 0.003 4K Mixed 0.002 17% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.56% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 19,779 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.8% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 20.6 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 23.4 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 96%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	176x
Core i5-6600KIntel $88Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	60x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	20x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	48x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	32x
RTX 3070Nvidia $500Bench 148%, 619,642 samples	24x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	11x
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 $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	13x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $614

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16