MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.94% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161102
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '17 at 04:55
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 89.5 1-Core 105 2-Core 209 77% 135 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 402 55% 407 Pts	64-Core 407 25% 407 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD Radeon HD 6670 32,193 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Asus(1043 03EA) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	6.94% Terrible	Lighting 8.9 Reflection 8.65 Parallax 6.97 7% 8.17 fps	MRender 9 Gravity 6.23 Splatting 8 6% 7.74 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.94% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 493GB free (System drive) Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 29340060 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4592 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 47904963457 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23466 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4476 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 38655295500 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 54 606011428 (C2) HDA temperature 36 46 34359738404 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 23 29340060 (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 -69672959441716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3291691170 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1770029450	49.1% Average	Read 90.5 Write 80.9 Mixed 20.2 46% 63.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.32 69% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 68%
SanDisk Cruzer U 16GB 1,935 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 13GB free, PID 55a5 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	12.5% Very poor	Read 38.1 Write 6.04 Mixed 11.7 18% 18.6 MB/s	4K Read 3.85 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.93 99% 2.11 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 12.5% Great: 12%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GB-$67 46,617 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 22.4 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 25.5 SC Mixed 19.9 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 81%

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Typical B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 2,157 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $100

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	549x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	326x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	261x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	318x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	226x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	172x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	49x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	139x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	75x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	67x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16