MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	57.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	35.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1862 x 1048 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 07:54
Run Duration	342 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 123 2-Core 242 85% 152 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 646 66% 533 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1653 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.4% Above average	Lighting 68.8 Reflection 70.2 Parallax 55.6 56% 64.8 fps	MRender 84.5 Gravity 73.2 Splatting 66 60% 74.6 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900 64GB 416 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 101532041 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -1597727804123 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1064 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 857 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 55837327388 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 101532041 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 101532041 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 101532041 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12583 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9503 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9503 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4625	35.5% Below average	Read 184 Write 52.4 Mixed 83.1 23% 107 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 56.5 4K Mixed 7.93 78% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 69.9 DQ Write 61.4 DQ Mixed 19.9 27% 50.4 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 62%
Seagate SkyHawk 4TB (2016)-$90 7,966 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free Firmware: CV11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 174092731 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 254 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 239191062 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -56749402879182 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 219048706136 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 60 504889373 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2559 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 81604378653 (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 -42520176227725 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34187242671 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42800682800	78.6% Very good	Read 137 Write 137 Mixed 126 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.25 82% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 107%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 916GB free Firmware: 1AG0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 1 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6270 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5628 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10462 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1796 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 193 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 61 420872214 (C2) HDA temperature 77 54 420675607 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1080416 (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 99 99 853 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	61% Good	Read 107 Write 105 Mixed 101 79% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.38 92% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 298GB free Firmware: 3.AA Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 79 54308599 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 56 56 45182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 79 54 35113926045 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26534 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2402 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 35 538771488 (C2) HDA temperature 32 65 47244640288 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 54 24131114 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	39.8% Below average	Read 72 Write 66.2 Mixed 67.2 52% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.31 94% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 43%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 1TB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 37.3 Write 37.3 Mixed 33.2 46% 35.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.21 64% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 44%
StoreJet Transcend 500GB 1,916 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 465GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	44.3% Average	Read 101 Write 103 Mixed 36.2 97% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.33 90% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 44%
ST312002 2A 120GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 111GB free, PID null Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Read 20.4 Write 20.8 Mixed 11.3 22% 17.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.34 62% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 12%
SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.0 32GB-$16 13,359 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 14GB free, PID 5583 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	14.2% Very poor	Read 32.1 Write 13.9 Mixed 15.1 23% 20.4 MB/s	4K Read 4.98 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.87 107% 2.53 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 14.2% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 859B CT4G4DFS8213.C8FADP 859B CT4G4DFS8213.M8FA 859B CT4G4DFS8213.C8FADP 16GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 75%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $100

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	547x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	322x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	258x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	172x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	138x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	75x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	67x

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Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $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