MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	107% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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-7A74
Motherboard	MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 10:31
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 90.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 256 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 697 74% 593 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 147 Parallax 138 114% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 136 Splatting 110 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20027 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2297 (B1) Unknown 63 63 441 (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 73 57 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33906314884	57.3% Above average	Read 472 Write 78.2 Mixed 108 47% 220 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 62.5 4K Mixed 9.09 87% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 26 66% 147 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 73%
Toshiba MK7575GSX 750GB-$63 7,628 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 697GB free Firmware: GT001C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1987 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10709 (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 39 39 24476 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3282 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 54 437780506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2883628 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 225176 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	51% Above average	Read 87.8 Write 90 Mixed 87.2 66% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.14 57% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 55%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 16GB-$6 19,339 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 4GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	30.1% Below average	Read 119 Write 13.2 Mixed 23.7 46% 52 MB/s	4K Read 6.12 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 1.56 170% 3.49 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Micron 16ATF2G64AZ-2G3B1 1x16GB 679 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	45.1% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 15.8 MC Mixed 12.8 42% 14.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 16.1 SC Mixed 14.6 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 46%

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	641x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	413x
Pentium G4560Intel $31Bench 57%, 70,054 samples	214x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	554x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	273x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	200x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	73x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	58x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	57x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	50x
HyperX 2400 C15 1x8GBKingstonBench 40%, 46,352 samples	42x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 46,470 samples	41x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $198

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