MSI B250M PRO-VH (MS-7A74)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.5% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A74
Motherboard	MSI B250M PRO-VH (MS-7A74) (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161202
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '19 at 03:50
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$95 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 217 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 427 57% 427 Pts	64-Core 418 26% 418 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 112 Parallax 96.8 89% 106 fps	MRender 99.9 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 94.8 79% 97.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 88%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 392GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 143 155 151 158 157 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 165 Mixed 84.4 SusWrite 147 105% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.7 139% 1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-043.A00G KHX2133C14/8G 16GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 22.4 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 22.7 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 74%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 22%

Surfboard

Desktop 73%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M PRO-VH (MS-7A74)

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	245x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	132x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	92x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	79x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	42x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	27x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	23x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 1x16GBKingstonBench 44%, 13,141 samples	21x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	17x
TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400 2x4GBUnknownBench 75%, 7,488 samples	14x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $182

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16