MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Raft	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 25% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	88.4% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (79%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A72
Motherboard	MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	25.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171117
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 17 '18 at 00:43
Run Duration	430 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	79%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	66.5% Good	Memory 67.9 1-Core 88.4 2-Core 200 65% 119 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 401 51% 386 Pts	64-Core 405 25% 405 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 3202) CLim: 1617 MHz, MLim: 1796 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	36.2% Below average	Lighting 46.9 Reflection 47.3 Parallax 42.6 38% 45.6 fps	MRender 40 Gravity 41.5 Splatting 37.9 32% 39.8 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron_1100_MTFDDAK256TBN 256GB 6,868 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 97GB free Firmware: M0MU001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1278 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 140 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 63 158914248731 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2503772976 (F7) Unknown 100 100 78259062 (F8) Unknown 100 100 55154107 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2055 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 53% Great: 94%
Micron_1100_MTFDDAK256TBN 256GB 6,868 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 97GB free Firmware: M0MU020 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1280 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 140 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 45 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 63 158914248733 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2506382952 (F7) Unknown 100 100 78343040 (F8) Unknown 100 100 54348879 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2045 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 53% Great: 94%
Liteon LCH-256V2S-11 2.5 7mm 256GB 1,558 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 86GB free Firmware: FC8110C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 419 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 443 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 18 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 120 (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 97873 (F2) Unknown 100 100 68643	101% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 337 Mixed 410 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 94.2 4K Mixed 40.9 151% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 78.3 120% 227 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 99%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 49GB free Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	223% Outstanding	Read 1,968 Write 1,113 Mixed 1,422 332% 1,501 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 53.1 188% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 462 DQ Write 361 DQ Mixed 153 185% 326 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 223% Great: 185%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 46GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 615 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 87 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2175855682	115% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 92.4 4K Mixed 47.3 178% 61.7 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 120 143% 250 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 122%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL 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 82 100 4690 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1322 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7201 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7252 (A9) Unknown 100 100 38 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7214 (AE) Unknown 100 100 301 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 240518168612 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 8 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 241 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1533285 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9518 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11953	88.4% Excellent	Read 512 Write 428 Mixed 456 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 5.83 111% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 33.3 87% 181 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 86%
Seagate BUP Slim BK 2TB 21,039 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 466GB free Firmware: 0304 Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	49.5% Average	Read 91.8 Write 80.1 Mixed 70.8 61% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 3.74 4K Mixed 0.36 124% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 412GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122705944 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1044 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 203875136 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5508 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 472 (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 57 521863196 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9109 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 30064771100 (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 52578989642595 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12196212567 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15216390294	69.4% Good	Read 91.1 Write 151 Mixed 128 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.29 86% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 4,255 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 451GB free, PID 0200 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	29.5% Poor	Read 78 Write 76.4 Mixed 58.7 90% 71 MB/s	4K Read 0.18 4K Write 0.47 4K Mixed 0.11 20% 0.25 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB-$182 7,414 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	61.5% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21.5 66% 23 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 13.8 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 106 38% 106 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 101%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72) - $95

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	360x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	252x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	220x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	272x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	175x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	125x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	40x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	61x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	52x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	35x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $442

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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