MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	105% 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	93.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	11.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 29 '17 at 17:11
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	65%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 way below expectations (6^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 93.3 2-Core 171 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 274 8-Core 392 42% 333 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 141 Parallax 140 111% 139 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 131 Splatting 109 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 67GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 100 100 326 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 772 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 63 (A3) Unknown 100 100 28 (A4) Unknown 100 100 11300 (A5) Unknown 100 100 38 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 9 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1172 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 119205 (F2) Unknown 100 100 988709 (F5) Unknown 100 100 180800	107% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 432 Mixed 469 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 39.5 155% 60.1 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 74.2 112% 210 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q 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 96 96 16140 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1346 (B1) Unknown 93 93 79 (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 63 47 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 34 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42528471597	93.5% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 350 Mixed 351 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 69.8 4K Mixed 26.6 135% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 84.6 114% 210 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 118%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 139 11650 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4765 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8027 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 777 (10) Unknown 15 185 278457929158 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4755 (C2) HDA temperature 122 100 30 (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	67% Good	Read 118 Write 115 Mixed 122 90% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.23 113% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 100%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 794GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 168 6533 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 143 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 168 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 20 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 802 (C2) HDA temperature 124 110 26 (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	65.4% Good	Read 116 Write 112 Mixed 110 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.74 4K Mixed 0.23 100% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 101%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 538GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 178 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3451 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5286 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 504 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9755 (C2) HDA temperature 122 101 28 (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	54.3% Above average	Read 93.7 Write 95.2 Mixed 93.6 71% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.27 111% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 96%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 533GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 156 7025 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22273 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41479 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3675 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 22263 (C2) HDA temperature 121 98 29 (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	39.4% Below average	Read 69.1 Write 67.9 Mixed 66.9 51% 68 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23.3 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 19.5 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 105%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,475x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,159x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	312x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	862x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	443x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	367x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	282x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	271x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	245x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $578

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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