MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	84.9% 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	63.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7968
Motherboard	MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171206
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 11:37
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 150 2-Core 300 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 597 8-Core 837 90% 717 Pts	64-Core 838 52% 838 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 118 Parallax 109 87% 111 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 95.2 Splatting 101 80% 97.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 480GB 11,256 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 403GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Read 528 Write 125 Mixed 184 60% 279 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 6.07 91% 41.9 MB/s	DQ Read 21.2 DQ Write 393 DQ Mixed 7.07 65% 141 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 182%
Crucial MX100 128GB-$74 9,892 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 112GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 16959 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1368 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 88 88 374 (AE) Unknown 100 100 111 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 48 223339282458 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 88 88 12 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 23703848652 (F7) Unknown 100 100 754462321 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2367370528	70.6% Very good	Read 508 Write 181 Mixed 270 70% 320 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 18.2 122% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 24 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 45.3 46% 69.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 89%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$67 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 927GB free Firmware: MS2OA8J0 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 65536 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 70 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896698547 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 666 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2522 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2522 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 176094838814 (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	105% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 177 Mixed 167 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.23 109% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 107%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 173 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3018 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 822 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2961 (C2) HDA temperature 112 97 31 (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	84.4% Excellent	Read 142 Write 151 Mixed 150 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1.33 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.35 144% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 109%
778 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 9GB free, PID 5500 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	33.8% Below average	Read 146 Write 37 Mixed 35.3 71% 72.9 MB/s	4K Read 7.43 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.84 86% 3.05 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GX-D4-3200-MR 2x8GB 3,635 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 31.6 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 23.7 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 32 96% 33.7 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 109%

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Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM EDITION - $175

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	351x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	46x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	42x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	98x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	41x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GBCorsairBench 83%, 15,511 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	12x

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Value: 40% - Average

Total price: $1,380

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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