MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72)

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 30% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	35.3% 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	81.7% 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.

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System	MSI MS-7A72
Motherboard	MSI B250 PC MATE (MS-7A72) (all builds)
Memory	27.6 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 12 '18 at 05:37
Run Duration	252 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 79.9 1-Core 116 2-Core 257 82% 151 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 490 66% 493 Pts	64-Core 484 30% 484 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 82.9% 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: 1560 MHz, MLim: 1791 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	35.3% Below average	Lighting 46.1 Reflection 47.5 Parallax 41.3 38% 45 fps	MRender 39.4 Gravity 38.8 Splatting 36.1 31% 38.1 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron_1100_MTFDDAK256TBN 256GB 6,868 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 105GB 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 1277 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 63 158914248727 (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 2402832728 (F7) Unknown 100 100 75100926 (F8) Unknown 100 100 52815142 (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% 105GB 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 1279 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 118 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (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 2405427792 (F7) Unknown 100 100 75183910 (F8) Unknown 100 100 51907497 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2045 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 53% Great: 94%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 100 4689 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1299 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7195 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7247 (A9) Unknown 100 100 38 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7211 (AE) Unknown 100 100 292 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 100 240518168610 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 8 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 241 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1532762 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9355 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11750	81.7% Excellent	Read 455 Write 418 Mixed 451 99% 441 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 92.2 4K Mixed 5.31 100% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 34.4 83% 172 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 86%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 47GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 517 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 65 (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 69 52 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2161809788	112% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 407 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 83.9 4K Mixed 47.5 173% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 27.5 98% 217 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 122%
Liteon LCH-256V2S-11 2.5 7mm 256GB 1,558 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 42GB 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 100 100 344 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 421 (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 95595 (F2) Unknown 100 100 68500	100% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 343 Mixed 410 94% 424 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 90.9 4K Mixed 38.8 148% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 78.1 119% 225 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 99%
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 18GB free Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	216% Outstanding	Read 1,907 Write 1,099 Mixed 1,391 324% 1,466 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 50.3 177% 63.8 MB/s	DQ Read 498 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 130 172% 315 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 216% Great: 185%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 409GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 104187912 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 203603340 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 450 (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 71 57 521601053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8687 (C2) HDA temperature 29 43 30064771101 (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 -96971771604141 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12112320487 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15100005516	65.9% Good	Read 137 Write 92.1 Mixed 84.7 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.45 104% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 112%

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 as expected (43^rd percentile)	71.9% Very good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 24.1 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 20.7 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 80.7 50% 80.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 101%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 78%

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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 $134	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