MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	87.1% 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	109% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151218
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 07 '18 at 20:32
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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)	78% Very good	Memory 84.9 1-Core 102 2-Core 203 74% 130 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 411 55% 411 Pts	64-Core 410 25% 410 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 108 Parallax 97.4 90% 105 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 101 Splatting 102 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 204GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7826862 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 44616120275886 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1493 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 514 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 24 40 64427130904 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 64427130904 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7826862 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7826862 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7826862 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 55834574849 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9892 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7462 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7462 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12956 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4259873	73.4% Very good	Read 480 Write 220 Mixed 291 73% 330 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 89.2 4K Mixed 14.3 109% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 58 87% 162 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 828 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 226 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 70 65 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 80 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4242940758	109% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 470 Mixed 488 109% 487 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 92.1 4K Mixed 37.8 158% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 114 129% 221 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 981GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 167 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 695 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1570 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 374 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2180 (C2) HDA temperature 122 111 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	87.5% Excellent	Read 180 Write 125 Mixed 118 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 86%

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 (56^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 29.6 MC Mixed 24.8 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 21.6 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 99%

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Typical B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 2,141 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	546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	257x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $46

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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