MSI B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.2% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7A45
Motherboard	MSI B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45) (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161109
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 25 '17 at 03:13
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 91.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 249 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 698 68% 560 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.2% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 103 Parallax 81 83% 95.4 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 107 Splatting 99.3 83% 102 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST500LM012 HN-M500MBB 500GB 47,588 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 230GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 34 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 94 90 2029 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1063 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3507 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 82 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 872 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 933 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 214748889114 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 21609 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 82 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 232127	56.3% Above average	Read 98.4 Write 97.5 Mixed 98 74% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.25 89% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 59%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896698549 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 496 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3648 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 492 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 496 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 496 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 193274118176 (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 200 200 0	79.1% Very good	Read 142 Write 134 Mixed 86.4 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.17 67% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	77.3% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 25.4 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 64.2 62% 64.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 91%

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

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Typical B150M MORTAR ARCTIC (MS-7A45) Builds (Compare 256 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 40%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

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 $139Bench 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	19x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	11x
SSD220 240GBTranscend $35Bench 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 $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16