MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 141% UFO	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 106%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	66.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	269% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

3 months ago, 3 months ago.

System	MSI MS-7977
Motherboard	MSI Z170A GAMING M5 (MS-7977) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171207
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 21:29
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd 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 i7-6700K-$359 204,877 User benchmarks, average bench 91% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	SC Int 147 SC Float 152 SC Mixed 150 120% 150 Pts	QC Int 504 QC Float 536 QC Mixed 513 117% 518 Pts	MC Int 743 MC Float 846 MC Mixed 801 119% 797 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 105%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 480-$350 80,457 User benchmarks, average bench 65% Asus(1043 04FB) CLim: 1310 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Lighting 188 Reflection 178 Parallax 264 67% 210 fps	MRender 142 Gravity 187 Splatting 130 66% 153 fps
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 72%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$95 53,813 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 223GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4127068 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 91654602099268 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 750 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 316 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 52 1013615689756 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 1013615689756 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4127068 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4127068 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4127068 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294962460 (EA) Unknown 0 0 411 (F1) Unknown 0 0 411 (F2) Unknown 0 0 524	71.6% Very good	Read 436 Write 204 Mixed 249 65% 296 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 18.2 119% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 46.1 66% 121 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 76%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$120 90,940 User benchmarks, average bench 218% 156GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 5,000 MB/s SYSTEM 4KALIGNED Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	269% Outstanding	Read 2,797 Write 1,228 Mixed 1,380 395% 1,802 MB/s	4K Read 60.6 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 31.8 210% 79.7 MB/s	DQ Read 534 DQ Write 420 DQ Mixed 191 221% 382 MB/s
Poor: 169% ↑ This bench: 269% Great: 262%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$55 364,417 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 522GB free Firmware: CC43 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 80 63 106087929 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1398551 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5224 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1706 (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 72 60 471007260 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3155 (C2) HDA temperature 28 9 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 3 106087929 (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 14469744824909 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1332079775 (F2) Unknown 100 253 886889691	87.8% Excellent	Read 159 Write 147 Mixed 126 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.25 87% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 108%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$28 103,923 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 355GB free Firmware: 17.01H17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ !4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 138 135 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8185 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17881 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6234 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 930 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7254 (C2) HDA temperature 113 99 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 26 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	66.8% Good	Read 114 Write 119 Mixed 110 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.37 108% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$193 36,892 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3467 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 39 MC Write 43.3 MC Mixed 33.4 110% 38.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 47.9 SC Mixed 33 94% 33 GB/s	Latency 49.1 82% 49.1 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 109%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 65%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $359Bench 91%, 204,877 samples	3,628x
Core i5-6600KIntel $222Bench 89%, 111,329 samples	2,260x
Core i7-7700KIntel $290Bench 100%, 156,048 samples	316x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 262,129 samples	1,864x
GTX 1080Nvidia $538Bench 125%, 192,223 samples	1,050x
GTX 970Nvidia $370Bench 64%, 247,983 samples	858x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $90Bench 94%, 282,195 samples	1,128x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 95%, 184,154 samples	854x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $120Bench 218%, 90,940 samples	204x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $183Bench 85%, 61,633 samples	544x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $173Bench 73%, 21,403 samples	521x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $193Bench 91%, 36,892 samples	350x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $1,219

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