MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 82.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	264% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 19 '17 at 16:41
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	82.6% Excellent	Memory 94.3 1-Core 106 2-Core 206 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 638 62% 511 Pts	64-Core 840 52% 840 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 118 Parallax 107 92% 113 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 102 Splatting 88.8 78% 96.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 363GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	264% Outstanding	Read 2,029 Write 1,275 Mixed 1,396 346% 1,566 MB/s	4K Read 52.1 4K Write 239 4K Mixed 51.1 271% 114 MB/s	DQ Read 814 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 222 257% 455 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 264% Great: 283%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 129GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4045 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1434 (B1) Unknown 99 99 33 (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 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 48 48 51919 (EB) Unknown 99 99 450 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6903614331	103% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 472 Mixed 431 106% 475 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 28.6 140% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 84.3 113% 204 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 116%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: MN6OA800 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 84 (03) Spinup time 140 140 21502886281 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1427 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 133 133 27 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2352 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 750 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1427 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1427 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 206159282207 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	64.7% Good	Read 114 Write 112 Mixed 24.3 60% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.17 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.51 137% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB 4,792 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	MC Read 43.5 MC Write 43.4 MC Mixed 43.6 124% 43.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 22.4 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 59.1 68% 59.1 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 106%

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	319x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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