MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.3% 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	70% 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-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161102
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '17 at 14:15
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 674 71% 567 Pts	64-Core 681 42% 681 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 90%

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: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.3 91% 108 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 99.4 80% 97.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 9242282 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 93982474381278 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 147 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 47 60132622366 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 60132622366 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9242282 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9242282 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9242282 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 90194313217 (E9) Unknown 0 0 37984 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3349 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3349 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8251 (F4) Unknown 97 97 7667829	70% Very good	Read 477 Write 234 Mixed 258 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 12.3 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 15.5 93% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 9.55 64% 146 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 64 233120247 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1157220 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -20315195310069 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (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 70 68 505282590 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 103079215134 (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 93789200842763 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2376771794 (F2) Unknown 100 253 55714549	97.5% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 168 Mixed 123 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.29 96% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 105%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 710GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	42.1% Average	Read 94.5 Write 105 Mixed 61.7 110% 86.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2800 C15 4x4GB 173 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.7% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.1 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 23.7 68% 24 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 111%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	547x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	322x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	258x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
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	54x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	138x
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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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