MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	64.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170419
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 02 '17 at 04:52
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	60%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X-$120 140,440 User benchmarks, average bench 74% AM4, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 73.3 1-Core 124 2-Core 240 80% 146 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 730 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 954 59% 954 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 1972) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 64.3 Reflection 63.3 Parallax 59.8 52% 62.5 fps	Gravity 56.2 Splatting 53.5 48% 54.9 fps
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Aireye S1 120GB SSD 210 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1203 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 166 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 19670 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 10 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1023 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2326 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	64.1% Good	Read 489 Write 345 Mixed 405 92% 413 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 3.15 72% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 23 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 3.22 27% 58.4 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 71%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 529GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6210 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1198 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14986 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1150 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 64 437911578 (C2) HDA temperature 73 61 454688795 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1126167 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	49.7% Average	Read 86.1 Write 87 Mixed 93.5 67% 88.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.4 93% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 150GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4736453 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11910 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 71835644 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42756 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1317 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 51540459558 (BD) vendor-specific 50 50 50 (BE) vendor-specific 60 51 690421800 (C2) HDA temperature 40 49 38654705704 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 16 4736453 (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 28394028822883 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2376419667 (F2) Unknown 100 253 715314103	47.7% Average	Read 80 Write 86.1 Mixed 66.6 58% 77.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.39 84% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 70%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 64GB-$7 7,617 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 58GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.1% Above average	Read 150 Write 109 Mixed 126 159% 128 MB/s	4K Read 5.55 4K Write 3.34 4K Mixed 1.47 184% 3.45 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.4% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 29.6 MC Mixed 27.6 84% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 22.4 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 93.9 43% 93.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 105%

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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	823x
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 $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	267x
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 $135Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	73x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	185x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	172x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $35Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	71x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $464

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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 $550	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