MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.1% 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	49.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

System	MSI MS-7A62
Motherboard	MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180126
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 30 '18 at 15:36
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 93.7 1-Core 125 2-Core 246 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 672 68% 552 Pts	64-Core 688 43% 688 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2197 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 122 Parallax 104 98% 116 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 106 Splatting 107 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2BF512A5 SATA 512GB 154 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 176GB free Firmware: LB1i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 22 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 97664 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 8576 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 34 100 81607393314 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 103 100 5066816 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 25000 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 1 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 25000 (F2) Unknown 100 100 77 (F9) Unknown 100 100 346	70.9% Very good	Read 506 Write 276 Mixed 347 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 22.1 4K Mixed 23 88% 25.4 MB/s	DQ Read 211 DQ Write 97.9 DQ Mixed 57.3 68% 122 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 71%
WD Green SATA M.2 120GB-$47 6,576 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 63GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 6934 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 238 (A5) Unknown 100 100 22256922728323 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 38 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 16 (AE) Unknown 100 100 54 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 41 253403070504 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8615720060886 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2016 (EA) Unknown 100 100 28002 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4174 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3638 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	49.9% Average	Read 481 Write 192 Mixed 171 61% 281 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 3.39 57% 21.7 MB/s	DQ Read 12.4 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 1.79 22% 49.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 73%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 458GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 2116 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3775 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6574 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 226 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11984 (C2) HDA temperature 109 100 34 (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	91.5% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 142 Mixed 132 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB 7,485 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	MC Read 30 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 22.4 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 28.2 SC Mixed 24.5 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 60.5 66% 60.5 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 86%

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Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

Motherboard: MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	214x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	150x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	145x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	162x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	116x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	95x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	32x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	28x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	46x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	37x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $405

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16