MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160722
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '17 at 01:02
Run Duration	301 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 127 2-Core 247 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 662 67% 544 Pts	64-Core 679 42% 679 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76% Very good	Lighting 97.5 Reflection 102 Parallax 93.2 80% 97.6 fps	MRender 86.2 Gravity 89.8 Splatting 79.7 69% 85.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 246GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2301 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 102 (C2) HDA temperature 73 56 188979675163 (F1) Unknown 100 100 117594	81.6% Excellent	Read 517 Write 352 Mixed 356 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 71.5 4K Mixed 9.7 97% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 42.7 95% 199 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 101%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 963 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 302 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 64 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 257449463	112% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 43.8 179% 63.5 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 26.7 89% 194 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 460A 240GB-$177 1,086 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 165GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6478 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1353 (AB) Unknown 100 100 82492240 (AE) Unknown 100 100 975 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 17 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1244 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4016 (F9) Unknown 100 100 52436108	106% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 492 Mixed 490 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 25.2 137% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 74.1 126% 243 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 752GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110855088 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2655 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 22007945276 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12969 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2685 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 51 487981084 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 345 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6219 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 42949672988 (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 89687507088097 (F1) Unknown 100 253 102698917352 (F2) Unknown 100 253 102564777011	97.9% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 153 Mixed 159 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.26 83% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 112%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 32GB 1,150 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 20GB free, PID 00d4 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	6.06% Terrible	Read 25.5 Write 7.13 Mixed 6.12 13% 12.9 MB/s	4K Read 3.42 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.001 13% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 6.06% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$408 6,794 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.3% Very good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 22.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 23.1 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 115%

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Typical Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) Builds (Compare 4,892 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,453x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	1,153x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	310x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	440x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	364x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	302x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	276x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	125x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	270x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	243x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	198x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $601

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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