MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
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	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.

System	MSI MS-7978
Motherboard	MSI B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161221
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 05 '18 at 03:53
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 104 2-Core 202 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 397 53% 398 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560-$180 23,273 User benchmarks, average bench 14% Asus(1043 83B5) 1GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Lighting 17.1 Reflection 20.2 Parallax 15.4 14% 17.6 fps	MRender 24.3 Gravity 17.6 Splatting 20.2 17% 20.7 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 15%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3250820AS 250GB-$60 16,391 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 36GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 90 90235846 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6737 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 229114136 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28699 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8565 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 1511 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 37 168160591911 (C2) HDA temperature 39 63 60129542183 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 57 49 108778231 (C5) Current pending sector count 1 1 4294967295 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 1 1 4294967295 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 27 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.9% Below average	Read 64.1 Write 64.5 Mixed 63.5 48% 64 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.42 94% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 44%
Seagate ST3160318AS 160GB-$43 15,932 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80496635 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1204 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 42 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 4522775274 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 52953 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (B4) Unknown 100 1 1207579874 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 1519 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 72 38655296656 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 50 638648356 (C2) HDA temperature 36 50 38654705700 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 70 53 80496635 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 42 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 88 99720	50.4% Above average	Read 91.3 Write 84.2 Mixed 77 63% 84.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.44 98% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GB-$67 46,617 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.1 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 15 SC Mixed 12.6 38% 13.3 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 81%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical B150 GAMING M3 (MS-7978) Builds (Compare 2,141 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

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

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	546x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	257x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	171x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	103x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

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 $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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