MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	112% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	14.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '17 at 15:45
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 129 2-Core 254 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 904 85% 705 Pts	64-Core 1,294 80% 1,294 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13786 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2000 (B1) Unknown 96 96 67 (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 58 48 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 732 (F1) Unknown 99 99 66993591434	112% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 404 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 88.6 4K Mixed 47.1 168% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 106 139% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 39GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 -5196910393326 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5675 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 4203 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 88 88 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 53333 (EA) Unknown 0 0 42433 (F1) Unknown 0 0 42433 (F2) Unknown 0 0 59968	52.2% Above average	Read 195 Write 111 Mixed 131 32% 145 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 15.2 112% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 132 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 24.5 44% 87.4 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 61%
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$60 1,772 User benchmarks, average bench 171% 22GB free Firmware: BXW7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	187% Outstanding	Read 1,706 Write 649 Mixed 925 240% 1,093 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 50.1 207% 78.8 MB/s	DQ Read 494 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 147 170% 299 MB/s
Poor: 113% ↑ This bench: 187% Great: 213%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 336GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 177 5966 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 551 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 456 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 205 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11640 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 36 (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	66.2% Good	Read 127 Write 103 Mixed 105 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.24 81% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 96%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 202GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 72 (03) Spinup time 165 165 34381562216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3329 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 117 117 36 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 13767 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1985 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5317 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5317 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 223339216935 (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 0	64.8% Good	Read 151 Write 75.5 Mixed 113 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.18 67% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB-$140 4,858 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (97^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	124% Outstanding	MC Read 53.1 MC Write 43.2 MC Mixed 48.8 138% 48.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 23.3 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 120%

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 69%

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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 $95Bench 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 $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) $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