MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 40% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	53.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	37.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150906
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '17 at 17:05
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 86 1-Core 109 2-Core 213 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 604 60% 489 Pts	64-Core 621 38% 621 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	53.1% Above average	Lighting 66.8 Reflection 69.6 Parallax 63.3 54% 66.6 fps	MRender 71.8 Gravity 62.7 Splatting 53.9 50% 62.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900 64GB 416 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 13GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.2a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 9065619 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 41326175350861 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 894 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 756 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 42 55837327392 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9065619 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9065619 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9065619 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9761 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6233 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6233 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2362	37.6% Below average	Read 182 Write 55.6 Mixed 78.8 23% 105 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 58.7 4K Mixed 13.3 83% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 64.8 DQ Write 60.6 DQ Mixed 16.2 25% 47.2 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 62%
Seagate SkyHawk 4TB (2016)-$87 7,966 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2TB free Firmware: CV11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 41688265 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 40 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 116100591 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -43323335113050 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 219046674489 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 62 589299746 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1563 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 81604378658 (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 106708462470666 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19790438911 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17709582307	40.8% Average	Read 59 Write 83.1 Mixed 77.6 55% 73.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.31 85% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$64 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 891GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 41515624 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3596 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 52 201898799637 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10754 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1381 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 81 81 19 (BC) Unknown 100 96 51540459544 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 64 38 9544040316964 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 974 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22255 (C2) HDA temperature 36 62 -140737488355292 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 74066711023069 (F1) Unknown 100 253 48770999564 (F2) Unknown 100 253 113077651381	88.3% Excellent	Read 155 Write 153 Mixed 154 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.26 77% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 113%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 327GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 2 (03) Spinup time 83 83 5990 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5339 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 10462 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 6090 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1647 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 193 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 61 521994271 (C2) HDA temperature 69 54 538771487 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 595739 (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 99 99 853 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	44.1% Average	Read 76 Write 77.7 Mixed 81.9 59% 78.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.43 96% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 297GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 79 48665633 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 57 57 44833 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 79 54 35091399172 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 25390 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2253 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 35 656670759 (C2) HDA temperature 39 65 47244640295 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 54 19421806 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	41% Average	Read 70.7 Write 71.8 Mixed 68.3 53% 70.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.34 96% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CT4G4DFS8213.C8FADP 1315 CT4G4DFS8213.M8FA 1315 CT4G4DFS8213.C8FADP 0420 16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	72.4% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 22.9 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 21.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 71.2 56% 71.2 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 74%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) - $100

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	547x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	323x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	260x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	318x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	226x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	172x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $75Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	49x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	138x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	75x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	67x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $508

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16