MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


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 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 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% 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	69.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A62
Motherboard	MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170406
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '18 at 17:09
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	14%

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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 i5-7600-$89 39,689 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 84.3 1-Core 114 2-Core 237 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 397 55% 406 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 133 Parallax 123 105% 128 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 129 Splatting 103 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 85GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 15 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1644 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 195 (64) Unknown 100 100 7485568 (65) Unknown 100 100 1098640 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 3248 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 830 (B7) Unknown 92 92 37 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 100 201864577061 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 15 (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 15 (E7) Temperature 91 91 9 (E9) Unknown 100 100 20509 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9637 (F1) Unknown 100 100 13865 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3957 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 39	69.5% Good	Read 477 Write 227 Mixed 239 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 46.9 4K Mixed 13.9 92% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 139 DQ Mixed 29.6 73% 158 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 686GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 63 60905107 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 608 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35315748 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2594 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 359 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 639893541 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 610 (C2) HDA temperature 37 10 42949672997 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 60905107 (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 16840566770126 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18295414672 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17275044331	100% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 166 Mixed 116 115% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.29 89% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 113%
Seagate ST3250310AS 250GB-$44 34,705 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 193GB free Firmware: 4.CCB Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 73 95792679 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1504 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 632686032 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 40228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1492 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 40 202870947880 (C2) HDA temperature 40 60 55834574888 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 82 62 95792679 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	55.9% Above average	Read 95.7 Write 99.1 Mixed 94.7 73% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.43 100% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 54%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.3% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 21.6 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 20.2 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 72.9 55% 72.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 80%

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Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	214x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	150x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	145x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	161x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	116x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	95x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	32x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	28x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	45x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	37x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $426

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 $178	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