MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	93% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	138% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170410
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 18:38
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 1700-$195 144,475 User benchmarks, average bench 69% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	Memory 73.4 1-Core 123 2-Core 245 80% 147 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 932 85% 712 Pts	64-Core 1,355 84% 1,355 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2107 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 97% 115 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 105 Splatting 105 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$110 2,806 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.06 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	138% Outstanding	Read 1,357 Write 578 Mixed 705 193% 880 MB/s	4K Read 40.9 4K Write 73.9 4K Mixed 34.7 146% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 40.9 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 19.3 41% 79.5 MB/s
Poor: 125% ↑ This bench: 138% Great: 215%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 70GB free Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4590271 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -117664924031737 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 863 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 501 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 37 44 107377066021 (C2) HDA temperature 37 44 107377066021 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4590271 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4590271 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4590271 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2097 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1404 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1404 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1859	78% Very good	Read 493 Write 201 Mixed 227 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 22.1 128% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 178 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 51.5 78% 146 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 87%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 745GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 174 2233 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1434 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3428 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 907 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 538 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 895 (C2) HDA temperature 104 93 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.9% Good	Read 147 Write 93 Mixed 102 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.31 96% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 109%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 634GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 123 115 6808 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 808 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 530 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 180 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5467 (C2) HDA temperature 108 90 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	41.8% Average	Read 74.7 Write 71.2 Mixed 69.6 54% 71.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.29 4K Mixed 0.23 52% 0.34 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4-3200 CL16 8GB 2x8GB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 25.1 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 28.9 SC Mixed 23.3 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 93.7 43% 93.7 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 112%

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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	821x
Ryzen 7 1700AMD $195Bench 69%, 144,475 samples	340x
Ryzen 5 1600XAMD $120Bench 74%, 140,440 samples	269x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	327x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	266x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	112x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	79x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	185x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	172x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	71x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $464

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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