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Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.54% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	67.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Micro-Star GE72VR 7RF
Motherboard	MSI MS-179B (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170116
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '18 at 04:17
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700HQ 473,208 User benchmarks, average bench 62% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	71% Very good	Memory 75.1 1-Core 107 2-Core 197 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 360 8-Core 556 57% 458 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD Graphics 630 FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? MSI(1462 11D7) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.54% Terrible	Lighting 8 Reflection 73.3 Parallax 7.94 6% 29.8 fps	MRender 10.3 Gravity 7.13 Splatting 15.8 10% 11.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.54% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend MTS800 M.2 128GB-$126 5,326 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: O0918B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th 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 100 100 765 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 824 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 237610 (A5) Unknown 100 100 278 (A6) Unknown 100 100 178 (A7) Unknown 100 100 233 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 93 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1173 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 53 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 327 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 744701 (F2) Unknown 100 100 225305 (F5) Unknown 100 100 950440	67.1% Good	Read 502 Write 151 Mixed 227 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 19.6 117% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.7 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 51.1 47% 68.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 82%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 388GB free Firmware: JB0OA3U0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 118 118 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 931 (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 94 94 3054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 820 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 144158 (C2) HDA temperature 127 127 274878758959 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	58.8% Above average	Read 109 Write 95.5 Mixed 108 79% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.8% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GB 71,691 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB SODIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.5% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 24.6 MC Mixed 20.5 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 22.2 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 90.1 44% 90.1 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 79%

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Typical MS-179B Builds (Compare 1,194 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming

Gaming 35%

Sail boat

Desktop

Desktop 71%

Battleship

Workstation

Workstation 29%

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Motherboard: MSI MS-179B

CPU
Core i7-7700HQIntelBench 62%, 473,208 samples	859x
Core i7-6700HQIntelBench 59%, 320,434 samples	285x
Core i5-7300HQIntelBench 57%, 170,871 samples	28x

GPU
GTX 1060 (Mobile)NvidiaBench 47%, 177,775 samples	626x
HD Graphics 630IntelBench 5%, 310,249 samples	413x
HD 530 (Mobile Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 213,495 samples	154x

SSD
RBU-SNS8152S3256GG5 256GBKingstonBench 79%, 7,907 samples	127x
MZNLN256HMHQ-00000 256GBSamsungBench 96%, 10,917 samples	76x
RBU-SNS8152S3128GG6 128GBKingstonBench 72%, 2,263 samples	48x

RAM
MSI24D4S7S8MB-8 2x8GBKingstonBench 71%, 20,148 samples	180x
HMA81GS6AFR8N-UH 2x8GBHynixBench 70%, 71,691 samples	118x
M471A1K43CB1-CRC 2x8GBSamsungBench 70%, 62,266 samples	98x

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