MSI B250M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A69)

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	102% 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	108% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A69
Motherboard	MSI B250M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A69) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170207
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '17 at 08:14
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	NGA-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 85.3 1-Core 127 2-Core 246 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 690 68% 554 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6180) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 144 Parallax 124 108% 133 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 127 Splatting 104 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM800 Series 2.5" 256GB 1,200 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 178GB free Firmware: VBM24D1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12202 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2822 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 491 (B2) Unknown 68 68 39 (B3) Unknown 91 91 692 (B4) Unknown 91 91 7244 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 1 (E8) Unknown 68 68 85 (E9) Unknown 65 65 1490524281	23.5% Poor	Read 189 Write 55.8 Mixed 142 28% 129 MB/s	4K Read 18.8 4K Write 8.17 4K Mixed 6.32 41% 11.1 MB/s	DQ Read 25.7 DQ Write 7.83 DQ Mixed 5.7 7% 13.1 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 23.5% Great: 34%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1362 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 52 (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 56 53 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3479392317	108% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 453 Mixed 448 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 39.7 152% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 260 DQ Mixed 26.8 97% 215 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 164086192 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 283361 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 359 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 504758300 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2552 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 77309411356 (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 -38920993636292 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10684947714 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3897521451	76.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 138 Mixed 136 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 96%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$50 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 170 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20318 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 250 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 52060 (C2) HDA temperature 115 104 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 91 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	84% Excellent	Read 141 Write 151 Mixed 136 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.28 116% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 84%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$45 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 201GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 34924304 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5657 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 148930722 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25940 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 356 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 45 521601053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 183 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9825 (C2) HDA temperature 29 55 55834574877 (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 129841156340104 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28547252644 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24719429374	77.3% Very good	Read 116 Write 152 Mixed 113 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 5.5 4K Mixed 0.58 194% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 112%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 1TB-$50 17,310 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 61GB free Firmware: CV22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 42565504 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6501894 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 33412 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 501 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 23 23 77 (BE) vendor-specific 71 51 521535517 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 243 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16213 (C2) HDA temperature 29 49 34359738397 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	82.7% Excellent	Read 152 Write 137 Mixed 119 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.18 66% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 119%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Transcend JM2400HLB-8G 2x8GB 619 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.1% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 15.3 MC Mixed 12.6 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 16 SC Mixed 15.3 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 89%

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Typical B250M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A69) Builds (Compare 343 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A69)

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	80x
Core i5-7400Intel $90Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	48x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	55x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	42x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	24x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	9x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	9x
M378A1K43CB2-CTD 2x8GBSamsungBench 80%, 29,586 samples	7x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $234

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16