MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A68)

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	75.4% 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	107% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A68
Motherboard	MSI B250 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7A68) (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161215
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '17 at 10:06
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 89.9 1-Core 106 2-Core 210 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 424 57% 424 Pts	64-Core 420 26% 420 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 859B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2652 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.4% Very good	Lighting 85 Reflection 98 Parallax 79.7 69% 87.6 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 108 87% 107 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 839 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 71 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 68 61 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12022034911	107% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 398 Mixed 410 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 74.8 4K Mixed 44.5 163% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 124 134% 227 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 108GB free Firmware: 505ABBF1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11930168 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 81346680602125 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2007 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 341 (B1) Unknown 0 0 19 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 71 47249293338 (C2) HDA temperature 26 71 47249293338 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11930168 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11930168 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11930168 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 86 86 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 88306 (EA) Unknown 0 0 38368 (F1) Unknown 0 0 38368 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21336	69.1% Good	Read 480 Write 150 Mixed 218 62% 283 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 88.6 4K Mixed 15.3 116% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 39.1 65% 127 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 441GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 148178444 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9779 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 265 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 390370505 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27274 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4401 (B7) Unknown 71 71 29 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032869 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 454295579 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 42949672987 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 19 148178444 (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 20104741952693 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1917025111 (F2) Unknown 100 253 362421254	67.6% Good	Read 121 Write 115 Mixed 90.6 81% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.58 127% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 70%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 231GB free Firmware: CP100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5440 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 15103 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28161 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5948 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 295158 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 72 72 2915 (BE) vendor-specific 78 48 22 (C2) HDA temperature 169 82 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 295158 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 206	42.9% Average	Read 72.1 Write 77.1 Mixed 78.3 57% 75.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.42 95% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 25.4 78% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 22.3 62% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 67.3 59% 67.3 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 85%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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