MSI B250M BAZOOKA (MS-7A70)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.6% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7A70
Motherboard	MSI B250M BAZOOKA (MS-7A70) (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170406
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '18 at 02:47
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 128 2-Core 241 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 697 73% 585 Pts	64-Core 696 43% 696 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1655 MHz, MLim: 2177 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.1% Good	Lighting 79.3 Reflection 79.9 Parallax 71.6 65% 76.9 fps	MRender 87.9 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 63.5 60% 75 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE200 SSD 240GB 4,783 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFM60.9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (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 2933 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 115 (A2) Unknown 90 90 31 (AA) Unknown 100 100 272 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1179684 (AE) Unknown 100 100 38 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 33 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3740 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5047	67.6% Good	Read 476 Write 249 Mixed 259 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 7.93 98% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 10.6 DQ Mixed 4.03 37% 95.1 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 564GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 66 63 3988755 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1551 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 667988014 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 325 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 24 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 60 673054755 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2170 (C2) HDA temperature 35 3 12884901923 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 3988755 (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 89438398988514 (F1) Unknown 100 253 73119297874 (F2) Unknown 100 253 99857994261	90% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 148 Mixed 141 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.34 98% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 112%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 296GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 135 132 4208 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2594 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3099 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1013 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2594 (C2) HDA temperature 108 86 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.3% Above average	Read 101 Write 95.2 Mixed 95.4 73% 97.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.41 107% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 58%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$80 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 296GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 133 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1882 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2478 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 648 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1882 (C2) HDA temperature 105 82 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.4% Above average	Read 104 Write 103 Mixed 95.7 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.42 105% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-102.A00G 2x8GB 484 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 21.8 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 24.8 66% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 77%

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 31%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M BAZOOKA (MS-7A70) - $135

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	1,568x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	752x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	466x

GPU
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	517x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	479x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	469x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	107x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	94x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	92x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	149x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	131x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	87x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $504

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