MSI X99A SLI (MS-7A54)

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 21% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	15% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	66.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A SLI (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160817
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 20:55
Run Duration	276 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 117 2-Core 235 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 697 71% 573 Pts	64-Core 914 56% 914 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Asus(1043 0429) 1GB CLim: 1070 MHz, MLim: 1150 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 16.11.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	15% Very poor	Lighting 18.9 Reflection 17.8 Parallax 23.5 15% 20.1 fps	MRender 14.3 Gravity 17.1 Splatting 19.7 14% 17 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 15% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD Smartbuy 240GB 1,005 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 6GB free Firmware: S8FM07.7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7619 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1324 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (AA) Unknown 100 100 720 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2752596 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3683	70.5% Very good	Read 455 Write 296 Mixed 135 65% 295 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 86.2 4K Mixed 7.94 94% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 152 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 20.5 60% 127 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 100%
OCZ VERTEX3 128GB 157 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10811606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -131279970350237 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2941 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 296 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (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 120 120 10811606 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10811606 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10811606 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 24414 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19924 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19924 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21613	66.2% Good	Read 471 Write 141 Mixed 192 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 14.5 115% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 123 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 40.1 55% 99.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 83%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$58 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 35GB free Firmware: AX0A1U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 2179 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 130175 (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 64 64 14683 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1182 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 93 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 365736 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864445980 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 94 94 2402 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 263 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	52.2% Above average	Read 99.2 Write 82.6 Mixed 64.6 61% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 62%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 17GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 168 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5474 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23168 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3756 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 377 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5096 (C2) HDA temperature 112 92 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	60.2% Good	Read 119 Write 90.3 Mixed 66.7 68% 92.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.38 105% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 16GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 218208688 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6168 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 67934081 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13853 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2336 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 31 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 53 4833869856 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 386 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 441681 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 55834574880 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 24 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -135746736351017 (F1) Unknown 100 253 58405022111131 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -51860487292152	99.5% Outstanding	Read 209 Write 138 Mixed 94.3 109% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.3 72% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 112%
Multi Flash Reader 8GB 2,367 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 1GB free, PID 6366 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	6.39% Terrible	Read 17.6 Write 12.6 Mixed 11.3 17% 13.9 MB/s	4K Read 4.38 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 17% 1.47 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 6.39% Great: 12%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2800 C14 4x4GB 1,174 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	116% Outstanding	MC Read 41.3 MC Write 53.1 MC Mixed 40 128% 44.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 21.5 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 52.8 76% 52.8 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 113%

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Gaming 101%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 90%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	39x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	12x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	10x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	11x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	10x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	8x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	7x
MX300 SATA M.2 275GBCrucial $42Bench 80%, 16,792 samples	4x
SHSS37A480G 480GBKingstonBench 91%, 14,802 samples	3x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x16GBKingstonBench 78%, 9,797 samples	4x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	3x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GBCorsair $74Bench 76%, 29,684 samples	3x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $682

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 $176	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