MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984)

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 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 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	54.3% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.9% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7984
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150714
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '17 at 04:45
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing below expectations (29^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 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 78.9 1-Core 120 2-Core 243 81% 148 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 666 69% 555 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3673) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	54.3% Above average	Lighting 68.6 Reflection 69 Parallax 59.9 56% 65.8 fps	MRender 70.3 Gravity 61.3 Splatting 58.1 51% 63.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 54.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15763 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 125 (B1) Unknown 98 98 77 (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 64 46 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 73 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32660520237	88.9% Excellent	Read 522 Write 271 Mixed 356 84% 383 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 23.9 137% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 133 133% 215 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 124%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 170 7908 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1716 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23394 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 272 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 166 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 50909 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 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	63.3% Good	Read 141 Write 79.4 Mixed 53.6 67% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.21 73% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 100%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 904GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7230 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2226 (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 67 67 13444 (0A) Spinup retry count 144 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1258 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2547 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 219043790886 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 84 84 6625 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 200 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	85.8% Excellent	Read 174 Write 125 Mixed 102 100% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.22 96% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 381GB free Firmware: CC1H 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 118 95 193848637 (03) Spinup time 100 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9767 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 382240852 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 54050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 247 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1466 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 71 71 29 (BC) Unknown 100 97 459305 (BD) vendor-specific 6 6 94 (BE) vendor-specific 56 45 924057644 (C2) HDA temperature 44 55 25769803820 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 22 193848637 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 103409927633862 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1782261208 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2274565552	43% Average	Read 77.9 Write 71.7 Mixed 63.6 53% 71.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.29 71% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 44GB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 75983459 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9493 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 48 48 1945655537053 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 38201 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 599 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 773193757 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 242 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 3 3 194499 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 34359738397 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 16 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 16 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 67658619821732 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20292823119018 (F2) Unknown 100 253 6774417664635	69.2% Good	Read 105 Write 136 Mixed 102 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.33 86% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB-$140 4,858 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.3 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 21.1 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 82.7 48% 82.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 120%

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Gaming 45%

Speed boat

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) - $174

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	553x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	222x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	73x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	88x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	61x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	44x
Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBHyperX $299Bench 79%, 20,912 samples	36x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $778

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