MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 119% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 109% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	125% 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	94.4% 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	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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 13 '18 at 14:46
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (55^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, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 124 2-Core 256 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 527 8-Core 869 85% 698 Pts	64-Core 1,064 66% 1,064 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 91%

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: 2050 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 193 Parallax 176 141% 181 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 169 Splatting 117 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 223GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3022 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1114 (A5) Unknown 100 100 988005861700 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 41 (A9) Unknown 100 100 201 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 27 (AE) Unknown 100 100 399 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 61 261993660444 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6927838152269 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6462 (EA) Unknown 100 100 24303 (F1) Unknown 253 253 19925 (F2) Unknown 253 253 17817 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.3% Excellent	Read 492 Write 346 Mixed 332 86% 390 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 66.6 4K Mixed 19.5 104% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 10.3 58% 135 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 101%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5131 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2899 (B1) Unknown 98 98 35 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 599 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27498019547	94.4% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 397 Mixed 414 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 75.5 4K Mixed 39.5 143% 49.8 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 17.1 47% 93.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 134%
Drevo X1 SSD 120GB 1,961 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 11GB free Firmware: P0510D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 694 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3123 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 95 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (A4) Unknown 100 100 47925 (A5) Unknown 100 100 81 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 7 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 410 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 124384 (F2) Unknown 100 100 227407 (F5) Unknown 100 100 95850	84.6% Excellent	Read 475 Write 327 Mixed 397 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 92.1 4K Mixed 31.9 124% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 162 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 19.2 57% 122 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 91%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (32^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.3% Very good	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 23.9 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 22.7 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 107%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) - $223

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	325x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	111x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	115x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	84x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	40x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x

RAM
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	22x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $769

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $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