MSI B350M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A37)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (21st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 79 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 66.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	95.9% 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	82.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A37
Motherboard	MSI B350M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A37) (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170308
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jul 24 '17 at 06:49
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing below expectations (21^st 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 below expectations (28^th percentile)	66.8% Good	Memory 67.6 1-Core 100 2-Core 180 66% 116 Pts	4-Core 354 8-Core 575 57% 464 Pts	64-Core 810 50% 810 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6188) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.9% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 151 Parallax 127 96% 132 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 130 Splatting 110 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 144GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 274 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 41 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1312938046	94% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 411 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 37.4 136% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 20.3 50% 106 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 70GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9700 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 600 (B1) Unknown 95 95 93 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 48 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 470 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35775378279	82.9% Excellent	Read 507 Write 408 Mixed 416 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 59.1 4K Mixed 24.6 114% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 51.4 47% 69.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 124%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 11GB free Firmware: 010G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30677 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1668 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 94 94 198 (AE) Unknown 100 100 93 (B5) Unknown 100 100 33080210229224 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 82 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 32 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 94 94 6 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	57.9% Above average	Read 491 Write 191 Mixed 275 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 67 4K Mixed 6.14 76% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 7.38 36% 81.7 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 260GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 223898664 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3544 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16214887 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10702 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 666 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 65012695075 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35214 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 -140737488355293 (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 58759447580816 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13997085790 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15466768971	75.2% Very good	Read 126 Write 136 Mixed 99.6 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.38 82% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4 2x8GB 1,403 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	67.6% Good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 22.8 MC Mixed 24.6 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 21.6 SC Mixed 20.6 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 107 37% 107 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 96%

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Gaming 45%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 42%

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Motherboard: MSI B350M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A37)

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD $110Bench 70%, 392,253 samples	69x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	24x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $84Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	22x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	31x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	27x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	15x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $68Bench 224%, 92,081 samples	8x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX 2x8GBCorsairBench 74%, 8,261 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	8x

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Value: 105% - Outstanding

Total price: $295

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