MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.2% 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	56% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kolorów
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170913
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	May 22 '18 at 09:14
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600-$110 392,253 User benchmarks, average bench 70% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	70.4% Very good	Memory 70.9 1-Core 107 2-Core 193 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 656 62% 516 Pts	64-Core 850 53% 850 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 460-$203 31,648 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Gigabyte(1458 34FC) 1GB CLim: 715 MHz, MLim: 900 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 15.2 Reflection 17.9 Parallax 4.59 12% 12.6 fps	MRender 21.4 Gravity 15.4 Splatting 17.8 15% 18.2 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 258GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 20686 (05) Reallocated sector count 94 94 173 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1003 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 369 (64) Unknown 100 100 1824384 (65) Unknown 100 100 296128 (AA) Unknown 100 100 173 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 274 (B2) Unknown 100 100 9 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2492 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 20685 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 343598104609 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 20686 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 173 (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 1 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3177 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1246 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2396 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4307 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 126059	56% Above average	Read 482 Write 260 Mixed 268 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 33.6 4K Mixed 8.75 68% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 25.5 DQ Write 34 DQ Mixed 27.1 21% 28.9 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 92%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 112GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 110380659514367 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3282 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 272 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 74 47249489952 (C2) HDA temperature 32 74 47249489952 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10696 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9299 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9299 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15693	42.1% Average	Read 172 Write 99.9 Mixed 108 28% 127 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 13.5 84% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 94.5 DQ Mixed 24.5 41% 79.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 73%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 206GB free Firmware: 1AJ100E4 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 10 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 60 5331 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4039 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8314 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4076 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 53 201864052772 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 416 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4102	64% Good	Read 108 Write 114 Mixed 107 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.47 126% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 77%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 151GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 98447728 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3773 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6583320 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3920 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2005 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 14 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 51 588447779 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15179 (C2) HDA temperature 35 49 38654705699 (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 -33891586931205 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9237014339 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27341345286	64.5% Good	Read 111 Write 114 Mixed 108 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.24 98% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	79.2% Very good	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 27.2 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 22.1 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 99.4 40% 99.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 104%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 42%

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Motherboard: MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) - $90

CPU
Ryzen 5 1600AMD $110Bench 70%, 392,253 samples	817x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	339x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD $125Bench 74%, 140,440 samples	269x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	326x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	265x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	112x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	78x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	185x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	170x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	71x

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Total price: $459

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 $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) $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