MSI NIGHTBLADE B85

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.3% 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MICRO-STAR MS-7887
Motherboard	MSI NIGHTBLADE B85 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140930
Uptime	13.4 Days
Run Date	May 04 '18 at 22:44
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Memory 93.4 1-Core 117 2-Core 228 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 614 60% 494 Pts	64-Core 604 37% 604 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1418 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63.1% Good	Lighting 80.2 Reflection 83.2 Parallax 73.9 65% 79.1 fps	MRender 79.1 Gravity 72.7 Splatting 65.6 59% 72.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6S 128GB-$106 3,356 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^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 100 100 953 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1745 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 235656 (AE) Unknown 100 100 83 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 235656 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 832 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 83 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 14728 (F1) Unknown 100 100 500570 (F2) Unknown 100 100 276803	81.3% Excellent	Read 473 Write 316 Mixed 386 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 83.5 4K Mixed 22.8 122% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 33.9 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 20.3 56% 111 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 965GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113076592 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2505 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 38421637 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6334 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1757 (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 70 55 504365086 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 52613 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 51539607582 (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 61628485733357 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21350142091 (F2) Unknown 100 253 796683101934	81.2% Excellent	Read 144 Write 139 Mixed 106 97% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston MSI16D3LU1MNG/8G 2x8GB 103 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	59.7% Above average	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 17.9 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 60%

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

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Typical NIGHTBLADE B85 Builds (Compare 6 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 14%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: MSI NIGHTBLADE B85

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	2x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	1x
Core i5-4670SIntelBench 72%, 1,661 samples	1x

GPU
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	2x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	2x
GTX 760Nvidia $209Bench 26%, 161,132 samples	1x

SSD
SSD370 256GBTranscend $110Bench 80%, 5,249 samples	1x
A100 120GBToshibaBench 65%, 1,960 samples	1x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	1x

RAM
MSI16D3LU1KFG/8G 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 186 samples	2x
TS512MLK64W6H 2x4GBTranscendBench 51%, 165 samples	1x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	1x

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Value: 47% - Average

Total price: $397

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 $45	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