MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 63%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	80.5% 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	155% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '17 at 07:41
Run Duration	315 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	63% Good	Memory 69.3 1-Core 93.9 2-Core 167 63% 110 Pts	4-Core 305 8-Core 600 54% 452 Pts	64-Core 1,024 63% 1,024 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 854F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 105 Parallax 98.1 84% 102 fps	MRender 90.4 Gravity 96.4 Splatting 86.3 74% 91 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$4 3,426 User benchmarks, average bench 174% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57CZ4102 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	155% Outstanding	Read 1,248 Write 870 Mixed 1,040 234% 1,053 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 81.8 4K Mixed 45 155% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 32.7 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 35.7 44% 72.4 MB/s
Poor: 122% ↑ This bench: 155% Great: 219%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1AG01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9350 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 2971 (05) Reallocated sector count 82 82 782 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 8 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 36003 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 881 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1345 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 67 555614241 (C2) HDA temperature 66 64 605814818 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 606483 (C4) Reallocation count 81 81 782 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 44 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	59% Above average	Read 103 Write 103 Mixed 110 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.38 96% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 58%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 992GB free Firmware: 1AG01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9510 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 2933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 38177 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 880 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 63 572391458 (C2) HDA temperature 66 61 622723106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1498117 (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 253 253 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	54.7% Above average	Read 97.8 Write 92.9 Mixed 91.4 71% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.44 100% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 58%
Patriot Memory 8GB 29 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 5GB free, PID 0916 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	8.29% Terrible	Read 40 Write 5.05 Mixed 8.85 16% 18 MB/s	4K Read 1.61 4K Write 0.33 4K Mixed 0.15 22% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 8.29% Great: 11%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4-2400C DDR4 2x8GB 1,781 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 1067 MHz clocked @ 1200 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 27.4 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 21.6 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 103 39% 103 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 88%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 42%

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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

Total price: $459

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