MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.9% 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-7A72
Motherboard	MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170407
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 19 '18 at 04:51
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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 (79^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 251 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 675 68% 551 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6764) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2256 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.4% Good	Lighting 80.5 Reflection 76.4 Parallax 66 66% 74.3 fps	MRender 76.9 Gravity 68.9 Splatting 71 59% 72.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS900 240GB-$20 61,417 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS900208 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1155 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 281 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 80 80 191 (AD) Unknown 100 100 720913 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 53 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1751	82.9% Excellent	Read 393 Write 461 Mixed 477 100% 444 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 92.1 4K Mixed 7.34 103% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 11.3 72% 161 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 91%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 97GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1120 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (64) Unknown 100 100 795360 (65) Unknown 100 100 177200 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 468 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 661 (B7) Unknown 99 99 8 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 188980002851 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1485 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1028 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1270 (F2) Unknown 100 100 831 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	63.7% Good	Read 466 Write 190 Mixed 217 64% 291 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 55.2 4K Mixed 11.2 90% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 76.1 DQ Mixed 28.1 60% 129 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 82%
PNY CS900 240GB-$20 61,417 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 77GB free Firmware: CS900211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 429 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 98 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 91 91 153 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65541 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 658	72.8% Very good	Read 297 Write 352 Mixed 477 84% 375 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 7.15 105% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 11.2 72% 161 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 91%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 3TB-$79 6,381 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2.5TB free Firmware: CV23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35784240 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 831 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 666663760 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17802 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 287 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 30065229831 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 2804 (BE) vendor-specific 64 52 622526500 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 848 (C2) HDA temperature 36 48 81604378660 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	109% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 189 Mixed 166 137% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 2TB 677 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1.5TB free, PID 0202 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	36.9% Below average	Read 85.4 Write 91.8 Mixed 78.8 110% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.19 57% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 22.7 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 24.4 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 99%

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

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72) - $95

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	360x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	252x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	272x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	175x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	125x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	40x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	61x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	52x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	35x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $442

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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