MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 101%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	91.3% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

5 months ago, 5 months ago, 4 months ago, 4 months ago, 3 months ago, 3 months ago, 2 months ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago.

System	MSI MS-7A11
Motherboard	MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11) (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170427
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 28 '17 at 20:31
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-7700K-$290 156,048 User benchmarks, average bench 100% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	SC Int 146 SC Float 152 SC Mixed 147 119% 148 Pts	QC Int 456 QC Float 509 QC Mixed 480 109% 482 Pts	MC Int 713 MC Float 850 MC Mixed 790 117% 785 Pts
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$350 80,457 User benchmarks, average bench 65% XFX(1682 9480) CLim: 1288 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.10.2 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete
Poor: 55% Great: 72%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata S510 120GB 309 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 112GB free Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4570255 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -87488483810335 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2704 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 93 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 64427655198 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4570255 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4570255 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4570255 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14422 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13361 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13361 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25554	72.9% Very good	Read 498 Write 146 Mixed 221 63% 288 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 16.5 128% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 39.1 64% 124 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 71%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$174 65,477 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 107GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7757 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3452 (B1) Unknown 95 95 49 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 65 44 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1579 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31827665674	91.3% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 348 Mixed 351 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 23.7 135% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 71.5 97% 178 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 95%
Mushkin ECO3 480GB-$138 780 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 90GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (97^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 100 100 315 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1232 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 150 (A3) Unknown 100 100 20 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13729 (A5) Unknown 100 100 33 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 15 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 157 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 178427 (F2) Unknown 100 100 526687 (F5) Unknown 100 100 109832	83% Excellent	Read 487 Write 262 Mixed 131 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 28.9 123% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 44.4 84% 171 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$75 13,262 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205409520 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 237 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1728815 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 561 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 51 638844960 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 375 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 73014444064 (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 32843614913067 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3267233394 (F2) Unknown 100 253 53693496082	94.1% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 151 Mixed 151 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.19 71% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 109%
HGST Travelstar 7K750 2.5" 750GB-$45 5,943 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 228GB free Firmware: JF4OA200 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 190 190 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2350 (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 88 88 5678 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2324 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 195702 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 236223660066 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	47.3% Average	Read 81.5 Write 83.5 Mixed 75.3 60% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.18 55% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$195 11,328 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	MC Read 38.6 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 27.9 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 36.7 SC Mixed 30.8 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 103%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 65%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A KRAIT GAMING 3X (MS-7A11)

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $359Bench 91%, 204,877 samples	1,141x
Core i5-6600KIntel $222Bench 89%, 111,329 samples	1,022x
Core i5-6500Intel $195Bench 74%, 56,101 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 262,129 samples	840x
GTX 1080Nvidia $538Bench 125%, 192,223 samples	390x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $300Bench 72%, 250,718 samples	374x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $63Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	312x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 95%, 184,154 samples	264x
750 EVO 250GBSamsung $145Bench 73%, 22,077 samples	87x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $183Bench 85%, 61,633 samples	296x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $173Bench 73%, 21,403 samples	142x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $195Bench 85%, 11,328 samples	101x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $1,052

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $90
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $300	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $158

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $75	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $60	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $193	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12