MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34)

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.3% 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	67.6% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A34
Motherboard	MSI B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170622
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 02 '18 at 16:57
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 (98^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 79.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 246 82% 149 Pts	4-Core 480 8-Core 799 78% 640 Pts	64-Core 1,005 62% 1,005 Pts
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 98.6 86% 104 fps	MRender 90.3 Gravity 95.1 Splatting 87.4 74% 91 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Aireye S1 120GB SSD 210 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4613 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 716 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 54027 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (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 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3760 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8647 (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	67.6% Good	Read 496 Write 350 Mixed 410 93% 419 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 68.9 4K Mixed 3.34 81% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 26.2 DQ Write 169 DQ Mixed 3.25 30% 66.2 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 71%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$89 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 734GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 235114216 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12384 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 100222667 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 46291 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1738 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 55835623485 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 104 (BE) vendor-specific 66 51 572456994 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 38654705698 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 16 235114216 (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 136610024816432 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2850874732 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3062383456	55.2% Above average	Read 92.3 Write 100 Mixed 95 72% 95.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.43 103% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 70%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 327GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 30726008 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 69 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7884812 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1341 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 82 (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 72 64 471466012 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 790 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 64424509468 (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 -75758928132828 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9541159132 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40201864019	69.7% Good	Read 108 Write 133 Mixed 96.8 84% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 5.26 4K Mixed 0.81 221% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 110%

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 2800 MHz clocked @ 1400 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.4 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 30.5 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 35.1 SC Mixed 24.7 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 81.4 49% 81.4 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 92.7% 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	822x
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 $40Bench 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 i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $288	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	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) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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