MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.8% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160516
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	May 25 '18 at 06:59
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 85.3 1-Core 113 2-Core 226 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 642 62% 512 Pts	64-Core 639 40% 639 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-Ti-$152 36,698 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Zotac(19DA 4263) 2GB CLim: 941 MHz, MLim: 1350 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	14.8% Very poor	Lighting 17.7 Reflection 16.3 Parallax 23.4 14% 19.1 fps	MRender 21.6 Gravity 21 Splatting 15.3 15% 19.3 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 14.8% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 89 159348211 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1453 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 55 55 1739616414472 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6218 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1256 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 57 50 739704875 (C2) HDA temperature 43 50 81604378667 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 62 58 49048150 (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	33% Below average	Read 55.3 Write 59.4 Mixed 53.8 42% 56.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.27 82% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 43%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 2TB-$105 4,536 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 122GB free Firmware: 1AN10003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1685 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 59 59 12432 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13962 (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 100 100 678 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 454 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7047 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 56 188980002855 (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 100 100 10 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 18 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 40419	49.1% Average	Read 76.4 Write 94.7 Mixed 102 69% 91 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.51 108% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 59%
ST2000DL 003-9VT166 2TB 229 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 179GB free, PID 0400 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	31.7% Below average	Read 82.3 Write 79.7 Mixed 58.4 92% 73.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 0.72 4K Mixed 0.49 44% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.3% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 23.3 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 26.8 SC Mixed 22.2 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 91%

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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	547x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	322x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	258x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	172x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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 $273	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 $177	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