MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 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 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	122% 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	94.1% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

High background CPU (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	57.8 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '18 at 05:02
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing below expectations (30^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 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 109 2-Core 212 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 613 65% 519 Pts	64-Core 758 47% 758 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 166 Reflection 185 Parallax 186 135% 179 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 164 Splatting 121 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 429GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15988 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 430 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 81 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1039651566	102% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 408 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 44.3 143% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 109 124% 211 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 426GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5669 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 49 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 59 53 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 28 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12710601279	94.1% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 417 Mixed 452 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 82.1 4K Mixed 26.7 121% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 19.6 82% 181 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 124%
Nvme INTEL SSDPED1D48 480GB 345 User benchmarks, average bench 407% 404GB free Firmware: 0325 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	357% Outstanding	Read 2,264 Write 1,967 Mixed 2,279 485% 2,170 MB/s	4K Read 176 4K Write 158 4K Mixed 81.2 455% 139 MB/s	DQ Read 175 DQ Write 416 DQ Mixed 153 158% 248 MB/s
Poor: 258% ↑ This bench: 357% Great: 527%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 65GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15999 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 450 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 86 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26094555624	86.3% Excellent	Read 511 Write 409 Mixed 418 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 23.7 117% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 20.8 50% 98 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 134%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 102GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 100 243467960 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 324 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 674829 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9003 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 193 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 61 505217053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1253 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 68719476765 (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 120770185403424 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1632032315 (F2) Unknown 100 253 90818753332	60.5% Good	Read 88.1 Write 121 Mixed 106 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 5.32 4K Mixed 0.95 240% 2.38 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSB.16FB 4x16GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	104% Outstanding	MC Read 39.5 MC Write 42.1 MC Mixed 38.4 114% 40 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 21.5 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: MSI X99S SLI PLUS (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	785x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	115x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	45x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	125x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	79x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	68x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	27x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	45x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	35x
8ATF51264AZ-2G1A1 4x4GBMicronBench 91%, 1,465 samples	28x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $523

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 $178	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