MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	72% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	17.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150529
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 14 '17 at 06:12
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (57^th 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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 106 2-Core 186 76% 128 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 753 73% 600 Pts	64-Core 950 59% 950 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72% Very good	Lighting 92.9 Reflection 99 Parallax 96.6 76% 96.1 fps	MRender 82.8 Gravity 86.8 Splatting 71.6 65% 80.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 255GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9688 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 537 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4917456117	116% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 412 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 49.2 182% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 119 144% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 134%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 92GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1507 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 491 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 68 (A3) Unknown 100 100 23 (A4) Unknown 100 100 64594 (A5) Unknown 100 100 106 (A6) Unknown 100 100 9 (A7) Unknown 100 100 61 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 25 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 51925 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 359670 (F2) Unknown 100 100 271043 (F5) Unknown 100 100 516752	98.6% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 366 Mixed 427 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 93.2 4K Mixed 35.2 139% 52.7 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 27.9 94% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 103%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 46GB free Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	207% Outstanding	Read 1,692 Write 896 Mixed 1,045 267% 1,211 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 53.6 219% 82.3 MB/s	DQ Read 526 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 221 216% 348 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 207% Great: 283%
Asmt ASM1352R-Safe 5TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	51.6% Above average	Read 142 Write 37.6 Mixed 78.7 65% 86.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.16 69% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 115%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 987GB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 144 144 84 (03) Spinup time 134 134 34386543000 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1869 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 405 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1933 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1933 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 180389871650 (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	70.5% Very good	Read 121 Write 125 Mixed 105 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 88%
Asmt ASM1352R-Safe 5TB 915GB free Firmware: 0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	84.6% Excellent	Read 175 Write 120 Mixed 125 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.29 96% 0.95 MB/s

Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 333GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 134 134 34387722665 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 658 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9153 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 492 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 666 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 666 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 180389871650 (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	75.1% Very good	Read 123 Write 138 Mixed 112 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.2 85% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x8GB 41,916 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 41.1 MC Write 43.2 MC Mixed 40.3 119% 41.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 22.8 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 115%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 42%

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Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) - $289

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	449x
Core i7-5930KIntel $150Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	87x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	56x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	51x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
TS512GSSD230S 512GBTranscendBench 92%, 2,577 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	13x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair $210Bench 88%, 3,970 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16