MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

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System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	24.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151030
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 24 '17 at 18:18
Run Duration	234 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	57%

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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 i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	79.2% Very good	Memory 90 1-Core 100 2-Core 201 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 368 8-Core 645 61% 506 Pts	64-Core 802 50% 802 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 151 Parallax 131 117% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 137 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 121GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22514 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 120 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (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 57 32 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 74 74 25361 (EB) Unknown 99 99 56 (F1) Unknown 99 99 68253648034	96.5% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 416 Mixed 423 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 27.9 129% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 114 127% 216 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 133%
WD Green 6TB (2014)-$223 4,204 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 195 183 9241 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17631 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 194 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27061 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 145 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 153294 (C2) HDA temperature 117 91 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	88% Excellent	Read 152 Write 154 Mixed 154 116% 153 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.3 130% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 98%
Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 4TB-$465 6,270 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 827GB free Firmware: MJAOA3B0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 138 138 76 (03) Spinup time 126 126 51579912807 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 22980 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 114 114 37 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 33854 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 291 (C0) Power-off retract count 81 81 23105 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 23105 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 283469152295 (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 200 200 4	94% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 159 Mixed 133 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.17 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.24 116% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 91%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 617GB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 64721104 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 21361 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 8717587108 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 27154 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 719 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065669 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 67 39 6172456910881 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 276 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 207050 (C2) HDA temperature 33 61 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 13404592939049 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47605362518 (F2) Unknown 100 253 55602294659	76.4% Very good	Read 150 Write 117 Mixed 123 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.14 56% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 96%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 495GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 168 165 6566 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20033 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 52420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 359 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 156 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 313774 (C2) HDA temperature 117 90 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 13	43.4% Average	Read 74.5 Write 76.3 Mixed 66.9 54% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.24 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 67%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 293GB free, PID 1021 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	17.8% Very poor	Read 36.1 Write 34.9 Mixed 10.9 32% 27.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.15 60% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.8% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (95^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	105% Outstanding	MC Read 40.2 MC Write 42.8 MC Mixed 39.6 117% 40.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 20.6 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 106%

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Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	823x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	329x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	148x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	116x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	40x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	59x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	52x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	46x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $371

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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