MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A68)

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.7% 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	76.6% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A68
Motherboard	MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A68) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '17 at 02:30
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^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)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 129 2-Core 232 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 706 70% 573 Pts	64-Core 675 42% 675 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.7% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 113 Parallax 94.6 84% 104 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 95.2 Splatting 99.4 80% 97.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk Ultra II 1TB 900 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 931GB free Firmware: X41110WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (A5) Unknown 100 100 65536 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 30 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 576 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 63 270584578076 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	101% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 493 Mixed 482 110% 494 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 30.5 120% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 316 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 62.4 116% 230 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 89GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 94 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 47 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4295753736 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 52 206158430250 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8590065666 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 20 (EA) Unknown 100 100 40 (F1) Unknown 253 253 28 (F2) Unknown 253 253 21 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.8% Very good	Read 508 Write 382 Mixed 422 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 83.4 4K Mixed 4.73 90% 38.2 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 6.83 63% 144 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 78%
Samsung MZ7LN128HCHP-000H1 128GB 5,673 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02H0Q 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 137 (0B) Calibration retry count 99 99 11 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 61 (AA) Unknown 100 100 382 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 5 (AE) Unknown 99 99 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 59 36 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0	76.6% Very good	Read 518 Write 149 Mixed 223 64% 296 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 26.2 145% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 74.1 62% 85.3 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 87%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 395GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2250 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 117 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 59 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 60 521863199 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 224 (C2) HDA temperature 112 103 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80% Very good	Read 141 Write 138 Mixed 138 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.31 123% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1K43CB2-CRC 2x8GB 24,860 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 22.3 77% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 32 SC Mixed 24.4 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 88%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 45%

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Motherboard: MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A68)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	120x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	119x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	112x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	75x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	60x

SSD
PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 177%, 99,566 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	20x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	35x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD2 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 16,539 samples	17x
BLS8G4D26BFSBK.8FBR 2x8GBCrucialBench 71%, 167 samples	15x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $359

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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