MSI B150M MORTAR (MS-7972)

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	127% 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	60.2% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

System	MSI MS-7972
Motherboard	MSI B150M MORTAR (MS-7972) (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 14:18
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	80% Excellent	Memory 79.2 1-Core 109 2-Core 216 76% 135 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 466 62% 466 Pts	64-Core 467 29% 467 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374D) ≥ 4GB; AORUS GeForce® GTX 1080 Ti 11Gb Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9135 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 200 Parallax 196 144% 191 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 172 Splatting 123 113% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2642 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 601 (64) Unknown 100 100 5360208 (65) Unknown 100 100 1335312 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 3221 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 688 (B7) Unknown 94 94 63 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 100 171799609371 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 90 90 10 (E9) Unknown 100 100 10114 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7694 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8699 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6154 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 1	60.2% Good	Read 485 Write 170 Mixed 190 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 44.5 4K Mixed 9.82 77% 27.1 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 17.7 59% 133 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 226GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 165045982 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 736 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16776656 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2638 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 612 (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 75 58 420544537 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 752 (C2) HDA temperature 25 11 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 165045982 (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 -105892418680413 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7770289419 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9470670256	82.4% Excellent	Read 148 Write 139 Mixed 130 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.25 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.5% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 24.1 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 19.7 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 82.1 49% 82.1 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 95%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: MSI B150M MORTAR (MS-7972) - $200

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	404x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	146x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	142x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	236x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	112x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	75x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GBHyperX $67Bench 69%, 46,617 samples	60x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	52x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	43x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $551

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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