MSI B250M MORTAR (MS-7A69)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	65.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A69
Motherboard	MSI B250M MORTAR (MS-7A69) (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170206
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 13 '18 at 20:33
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 115 2-Core 226 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 466 60% 453 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2027 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Lighting 82.6 Reflection 83.4 Parallax 70.8 67% 78.9 fps	MRender 71.2 Gravity 74.9 Splatting 76.7 61% 74.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 500GB-$113 27,087 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 391GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (A5) Unknown 100 100 655366 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 72 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 627 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 46 197570002988 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4294967297 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 68 (EA) Unknown 100 100 78 (F1) Unknown 253 253 78 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.1% Excellent	Read 442 Write 327 Mixed 284 78% 351 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 74.7 4K Mixed 21 124% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 50 98% 200 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 116%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 950 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 648 (A5) Unknown 100 100 743086162692 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 26 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 12 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 52 206158430249 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1103818260737 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1501 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3606 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2213 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6472 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	54.7% Above average	Read 509 Write 31.3 Mixed 258 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 4.85 91% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 74.9 DQ Write 258 DQ Mixed 5.78 51% 113 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 409GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 66 63 4262564 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 685 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 32381406 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1194 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 568 (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 70 65 505020446 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 686 (C2) HDA temperature 30 8 34359738398 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 4262564 (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 37705517892761 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8736388122 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20518925094	83.2% Excellent	Read 151 Write 140 Mixed 118 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.29 84% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x4GB 16,770 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 25.1 83% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 25.1 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 60.2 66% 60.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 88%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 78%

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Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: MSI B250M MORTAR (MS-7A69)

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	373x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	264x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	254x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	311x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	222x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	80x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	60x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	44x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	46x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	44x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	36x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $305

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 $184	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