MSI B150M Night Elf (MS-7979)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	117% 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	70.7% 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.

System	MSI MS-7979
Motherboard	MSI B150M Night Elf (MS-7979) (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151217
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 06 '18 at 20:07
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (44^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)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 87.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 86% 156 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 674 70% 560 Pts	64-Core 697 43% 697 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Lighting 160 Reflection 161 Parallax 137 130% 153 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 152 Splatting 119 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 172GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3863 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 750 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 98 98 0 (AD) Unknown 195 195 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 136 (C2) HDA temperature 71 51 210454380573	70.7% Very good	Read 497 Write 273 Mixed 276 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 54.8 4K Mixed 7.33 84% 30.7 MB/s	DQ Read 314 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 7.29 69% 165 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 99%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 120GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 175 2116 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1007 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3865 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 908 (C2) HDA temperature 110 98 33 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	62.1% Good	Read 112 Write 104 Mixed 92.3 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.22 102% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 62.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.2% Below average	MC Read 13.2 MC Write 13.1 MC Mixed 10.5 35% 12.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 13.7 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 70.2 57% 70.2 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 95%

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Typical B150M Night Elf (MS-7979) Builds (Compare 448 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI B150M Night Elf (MS-7979)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	112x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	75x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	54x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	45x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	35x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	21x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	15x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	22x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	18x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	9x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $264

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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