MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	3.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180125
Uptime	8.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '18 at 19:12
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600-$110 392,253 User benchmarks, average bench 70% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	69.2% Good	Memory 71.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 206 70% 126 Pts	4-Core 358 8-Core 631 60% 495 Pts	64-Core 822 51% 822 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1655 MHz, MLim: 1977 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.9 Reflection 79.2 Parallax 72.5 63% 76.2 fps	MRender 84.1 Gravity 72.5 Splatting 63 59% 73.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 75GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4192296 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 31078383354174 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 76 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 16 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 37 41 77312098341 (C2) HDA temperature 37 41 77312098341 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4192296 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4192296 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4192296 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 73014444032 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1029 (EA) Unknown 0 0 592 (F1) Unknown 0 0 592 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1766 (F4) Unknown 100 100 393218	74.6% Very good	Read 507 Write 245 Mixed 284 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 82.3 4K Mixed 20.2 110% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 58.2 71% 123 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 85%
Hitachi HUA721010KLA330 1TB 3,164 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 293GB free (System drive) Firmware: GKAOA94A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 102 102 55878681267 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 787 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 134 134 32 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 73044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 779 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 813 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 813 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 257698627625 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	42.3% Average	Read 70.7 Write 76.6 Mixed 81 58% 76.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.26 70% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 47%
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 500GB 3,970 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 344GB free, PID 5021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Read 36.7 Write 34.9 Mixed 14.7 35% 28.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.24 50% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 31%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x4GB 16,770 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.7% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 25.8 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 23.8 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 97.3 41% 97.3 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 88%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 45%

Yacht

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

Motherboard: MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD $110Bench 70%, 392,253 samples	817x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	339x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD $125Bench 74%, 140,440 samples	269x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	326x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	265x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	112x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	78x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	185x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	170x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	71x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $261	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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