MSI X299 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A90)

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	162% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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

System	Micro-Star MS-7A90
Motherboard	MSI X299 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A90) (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170602
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 31 '17 at 11:02
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	12%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7740X-$350 5,094 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 282 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 786 77% 628 Pts	64-Core 756 47% 756 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 96%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Lighting 76 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 66.6 62% 73.3 fps	MRender 71.5 Gravity 71 Splatting 70 58% 70.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	162% Outstanding	Read 1,389 Write 561 Mixed 801 201% 917 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 42.3 182% 73.4 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 511 DQ Mixed 26.1 122% 265 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 162% Great: 157%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 32GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 20128 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3287 (B1) Unknown 97 97 27 (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 42 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 43 (F1) Unknown 99 99 50653030533	88.8% Excellent	Read 510 Write 351 Mixed 360 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 81.2 4K Mixed 28.7 148% 51.8 MB/s	DQ Read 47.4 DQ Write 87.7 DQ Mixed 24.6 31% 53.2 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 126%
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 27GB free Firmware: 5.0.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3549960 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 7310034357594 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3257 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 56 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 55 51543212068 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3549960 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3549960 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3549960 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 21405 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16920 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16920 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9720	62.4% Good	Read 403 Write 104 Mixed 159 48% 222 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 86.5 4K Mixed 12.5 116% 44.8 MB/s	DQ Read 205 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 29.5 58% 119 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 80%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 301GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 72 (03) Spinup time 155 149 5250 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17053 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 44462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6122 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 366 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 16998 (C2) HDA temperature 104 81 43 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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 0 (F0) Head flying hours 74 74 19672 (F1) Unknown 200 200 34539495800 (F2) Unknown 200 200 62300082459	47.3% Average	Read 85.9 Write 78.7 Mixed 77.6 61% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.41 101% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 69%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 67GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 104 (03) Spinup time 139 136 4016 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12400 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5229 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 233 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12166 (C2) HDA temperature 102 80 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 114 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 4 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 213237 (C8) Write error rate 170 164 6067	70.3% Very good	Read 126 Write 119 Mixed 112 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.47 111% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 4400 C19 2x8GB 424 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.7% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 20.5 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 21.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 60.7 66% 60.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 136%

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Gaming 101%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 101%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 GAMING M7 ACK (MS-7A90)

CPU
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	81x
Core i9-7900XIntel $413Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	57x
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	70x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,148Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	19x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	21x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $249Bench 279%, 18,356 samples	16x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	14x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	83x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	30x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	30x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $903

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 $177	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