MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62)

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.25% 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	65.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A62
Motherboard	MSI B250 GAMING M3 (MS-7A62) (all builds)
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170206
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 09:27
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$70 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 109 2-Core 216 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 420 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 425 26% 425 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7A62) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	6.25% Terrible	Lighting 6.3 Reflection 10.4 Parallax 6.22 5% 7.63 fps	MRender 9.57 Gravity 5.27 Splatting 14.3 8% 9.73 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.25% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$36 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 19190601 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -108593953112042 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 19 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 5 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 31 94491312155 (C2) HDA temperature 27 31 94491312155 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19190601 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19190601 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19190601 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 60 (EA) Unknown 0 0 63 (F1) Unknown 0 0 63 (F2) Unknown 0 0 76 (F4) Unknown 100 100 131072	65.7% Good	Read 498 Write 128 Mixed 205 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 96.5 4K Mixed 15 116% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 92.8 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 33.3 46% 83.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 100 27256040 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 23 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 19947 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (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 72 70 487981084 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 155 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 85899345948 (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 -114379274059770 (F1) Unknown 100 253 68211509 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15126888	107% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 179 Mixed 176 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.17 81% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%
Generic Flash Disk 64GB 94 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 1GB free, PID 6998 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	5.47% Terrible	Read 18.9 Write 8.55 Mixed 5.08 12% 10.9 MB/s	4K Read 3.55 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.006 14% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.47% Great: 5%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C15 2x4GB 38,955 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	82.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.2 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 25.2 84% 29.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 24.2 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 91%

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Workstation 44%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	214x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	151x
Core i5-7500Intel $62Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	162x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	116x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	95x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	33x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	32x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	28x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	46x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16