MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21)

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	207% 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	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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A21
Motherboard	MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21) (all builds)
Memory	51.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160616
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 06:16
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 108 2-Core 207 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 640 62% 510 Pts	64-Core 810 50% 810 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6188) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 129 Parallax 123 119% 133 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 104 Splatting 93.1 80% 98.3 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 2TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 9055 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 104 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 75 64 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28437368	100% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 412 Mixed 426 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 75.7 4K Mixed 31.5 139% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 130 141% 237 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 2TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9058 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 104 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 75 61 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 8 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30824233	93.8% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 425 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 38.9 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 30.4 139% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 41.9 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 130 104% 140 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 2TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9055 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 104 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 76 61 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32061157	93.8% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 76 4K Mixed 30.5 138% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 47.2 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 130 105% 143 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 135%
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB 594 User benchmarks, average bench 193% 379GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57CZ Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	207% Outstanding	Read 1,890 Write 997 Mixed 1,313 309% 1,400 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 42.3 180% 70.9 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 363 DQ Mixed 26.6 110% 244 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 207% Great: 259%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 4x16GB 524 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (69^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	98% Outstanding	MC Read 32.8 MC Write 45.8 MC Mixed 36.6 110% 38.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 17.7 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 76.2 52% 76.2 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 125%

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Typical X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21) Builds (Compare 106 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 81%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 72%

Battleship

Motherboard: MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	24x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	24x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	20x
RTX 3060Nvidia $283Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	9x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	9x

SSD
MX300 SATA M.2 275GBCrucial $42Bench 80%, 16,792 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $168Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	4x
WDBRPG0010BNC-WRSN 1TBBench 285%, 20,671 samples	4x

RAM
Aegis DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 79%, 1,332 samples	5x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 8x4GBG.SKILLBench 104%, 24 samples	4x
HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBKingstonBench 89%, 6,294 samples	4x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $571

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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