MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160516
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 25 '18 at 11:39
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 above expectations (64^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 88.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 246 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 600 64% 508 Pts	64-Core 637 39% 637 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	112% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 161 Parallax 143 123% 152 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 156 Splatting 104 98% 121 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8101 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 856 (B1) Unknown 98 98 35 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41060815449	115% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 97.1 4K Mixed 46.9 181% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 97.4 132% 241 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 963GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 150922240 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 886 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42531222 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8076 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 854 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 555221025 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 37184 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 60129542177 (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 -69346541954304 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26574525202 (F2) Unknown 100 253 126432496151	90.9% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 150 Mixed 148 117% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.22 80% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 113%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 825GB free Firmware: SM14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 217154816 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3780 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 359414175 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 20065 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1384 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 34 34 66 (BE) vendor-specific 75 59 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 307 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9484 (C2) HDA temperature 25 41 68719476761 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	61.2% Good	Read 101 Write 111 Mixed 95.1 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.39 4K Mixed 0.68 206% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GB 286 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.2% Good	MC Read 23.2 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 20.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 20.7 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 100%

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Typical B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 2,145 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

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