MSI B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45)

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


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 83.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	86.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	MSI MS-7A45
Motherboard	MSI B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 19 '17 at 18:22
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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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 i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.1% Excellent	Memory 88.3 1-Core 111 2-Core 232 81% 144 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 451 60% 450 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85E8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2775 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 146 Parallax 140 120% 145 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 140 Splatting 110 99% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon LMH-128V2M-11 MSATA 128GB 287 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: FM7110C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 137 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 397 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 48 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 142 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 156599 (F2) Unknown 100 100 92029	86.1% Excellent	Read 514 Write 165 Mixed 237 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 94 4K Mixed 37 149% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 23.3 72% 160 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 100 112150552 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 161 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 1734012 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 574 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 127 (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 74 55 437583898 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4000 (C2) HDA temperature 26 45 64424509466 (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 -125056562757375 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2002637834 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121542211544	108% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 179 Mixed 177 139% 184 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2010)-$18 39,749 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 291GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 137 1833 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2651 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6293 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2513 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BE) vendor-specific 74 50 437649434 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 1210 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 599700 (C2) HDA temperature 117 93 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	45.6% Average	Read 76 Write 82.9 Mixed 73.1 58% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.21 72% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 47%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 23.4 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 22.6 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 99%

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Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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Motherboard: MSI B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45)

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	45x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	43x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	61x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	31x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
SSD220 240GBTranscend $33Bench 71%, 12,548 samples	8x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	16x
Vengeance LED DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $33Bench 74%, 14,163 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	8x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $211

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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