MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57.6% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A74
Motherboard	MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170406
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '20 at 03:20
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 81.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 206 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 577 58% 473 Pts	64-Core 601 37% 601 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2070-$200 478,117 User benchmarks, average bench 104% Gigabyte(1458 3FDA) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 457.30 Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 120 Parallax 134 100% 126 fps	MRender 168 Gravity 118 Splatting 100 102% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX500 240GB-$27 142,801 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: M6CR013 SusWrite @10s intervals: 403 281 79 54 58 56 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	57.6% Above average	Read 419 Write 360 Mixed 343 SusWrite 155 71% 319 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 34.9 4K Mixed 15.8 65% 22.7 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 32.6 89% 187 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 92%
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 398GB free Firmware: S3Z40107 SusWrite @10s intervals: 410 423 414 431 438 439 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	70.9% Very good	Read 423 Write 368 Mixed 342 SusWrite 426 88% 390 MB/s	4K Read 16.2 4K Write 27.6 4K Mixed 15 58% 19.6 MB/s	DQ Read 147 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 43.4 86% 168 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 102%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$37 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 671GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 188 190 189 192 191 191 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 177 Mixed 75.7 SusWrite 190 115% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 154% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 859B BLS8G4D240FSBK.8FBD 16GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	60.1% Good	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 19.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 16.6 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 78.3 51% 78.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 76%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74) Builds (Compare 2,465 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VD (MS-7A74)

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	650x
Core i5-7500Intel $88Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	416x
Pentium G4560Intel $31Bench 57%, 70,054 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	562x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	275x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	202x

SSD
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	73x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	59x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	58x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	52x
HyperX 2400 C15 1x8GBKingstonBench 40%, 46,352 samples	42x
HyperX 2133 C14 1x8GBKingstonBench 37%, 30,824 samples	42x

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