MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Battle cruiser	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	69.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160525
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '17 at 21:31
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Memory 89.5 1-Core 113 2-Core 220 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 656 67% 542 Pts	64-Core 895 55% 895 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1564 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Lighting 89.9 Reflection 88.6 Parallax 79 73% 85.8 fps	MRender 82.3 Gravity 79.2 Splatting 70.7 63% 77.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD340 128GB-$88 2,082 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 71GB free Firmware: SVN059 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1035 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 386 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 8590327809 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 552 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 3000 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C2) HDA temperature 71 71 124555624477 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 385208832 (EA) Unknown 100 100 328636864 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 162319986 (F2) Unknown 100 100 206482768	75.1% Very good	Read 487 Write 159 Mixed 240 64% 295 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 89.1 4K Mixed 24.2 123% 47.6 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 164 DQ Mixed 30.6 72% 152 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 84%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2892 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1034 (B1) Unknown 89 89 128 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 44 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 172 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25284169371	75.9% Very good	Read 494 Write 280 Mixed 304 79% 360 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 62.2 4K Mixed 18.4 114% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 39.3 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 17.6 47% 93 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 906GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 34411824 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2222 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5541890 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 997 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 75 49 73452027929 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9858 (C2) HDA temperature 25 51 -140737488355303 (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 -24678882082331 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1908928494 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4737803813	104% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 183 Mixed 173 135% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.35 116% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 8,912 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (86^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	108% Outstanding	MC Read 38.9 MC Write 49.6 MC Mixed 39.1 122% 42.5 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 19.1 SC Mixed 18.9 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 125%

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	319x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	126x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	120x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	82x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	61x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	22x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	28x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	27x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $639

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16