MSI B450 Tomahawk

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	14.4% 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	37.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (93%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7C02
Motherboard	MSI B450 Tomahawk (all builds)
Memory	20.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20190924
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '20 at 02:01
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	93%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X-$210 159,077 User benchmarks, average bench 76% AM4, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	78.5% Very good	Memory 74.4 1-Core 114 2-Core 227 76% 139 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 774 74% 608 Pts	64-Core 1,224 76% 1,224 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 580-$130 360,351 User benchmarks, average bench 52% MSI(1462 3418) CLim: 1366 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.12.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	14.4% Very poor	Lighting 0.03 Reflection 55.1 Parallax 74.8 0% 43.3 fps	MRender 59.4 Gravity 54.9 Splatting 43.9 42% 52.7 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Sol id State Disk 1TB 168 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: R052 SusWrite @10s intervals: 5.7 67 412 91 2.7 1.4 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	37.4% Below average	Read 476 Write 414 Mixed 364 SusWrite 96.5 75% 338 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 12.6 4K Mixed 0.9 35% 10.4 MB/s	DQ Read 125 DQ Write 16.9 DQ Mixed 1 19% 47.7 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 91%
VK0480GDJXV 480GB 183 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 326GB free Firmware: 4IWVHPG1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 402 412 405 408 381 351 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	71.1% Very good	Read 332 Write 409 Mixed 298 SusWrite 393 81% 358 MB/s	4K Read 16.5 4K Write 35.8 4K Mixed 23.2 74% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 258 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 33.6 82% 172 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 98%
VK0480GDJXV 480GB 183 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 447GB free Firmware: 4IWVHPG1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 404 411 401 406 385 352 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Read 327 Write 405 Mixed 293 SusWrite 393 80% 355 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 45.9 4K Mixed 23.8 79% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 34.6 81% 170 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 98%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 201GB free Firmware: CC9D SusWrite @10s intervals: 179 171 177 178 169 181 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Read 155 Write 125 Mixed 81.3 SusWrite 176 98% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.8 140% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C16 2x16GB 8,888 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1067 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.6% Good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 23.7 MC Mixed 24.7 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 24.2 SC Mixed 21.6 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 91.6 44% 91.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 103%

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

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 64%

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Motherboard: MSI B450 Tomahawk - $130

CPU
Ryzen 5 2600AMD $150Bench 73%, 179,588 samples	1,751x
Ryzen 5 3600AMD $83Bench 83%, 1,072,639 samples	1,089x
Ryzen 7 2700XAMD $210Bench 76%, 159,077 samples	859x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $324Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	561x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	475x
RTX 2070Nvidia $200Bench 104%, 478,117 samples	341x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	438x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	301x
660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBIntel $74Bench 191%, 163,917 samples	235x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	658x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	426x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	248x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $721

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) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16