MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.9% 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	95.4% 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

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160323
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '16 at 18:17
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 101 2-Core 210 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 775 69% 583 Pts	64-Core 1053 65% 1053 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% Asus(1043 8539) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	78.9% Very good	Lighting 103 Reflection 110 Parallax 100 84% 104 fps	MRender 86.2 Gravity 92 Splatting 76.7 69% 85 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 801GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 52 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 31 (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 62 62 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 502373650	95.4% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 414 Mixed 427 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 29.1 118% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 130 145% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 133%
Seagate Backup+ BL 2TB 192 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1TB free Firmware: A905 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	63.5% Good	Read 100 Write 121 Mixed 121 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.35 94% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 63%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 448GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 64 (03) Spinup time 138 136 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2620 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15932 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 883 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 270 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2349 (C2) HDA temperature 106 94 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.8% Good	Read 127 Write 113 Mixed 121 91% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.48 119% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GB-$210 3,970 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (90^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	104% Outstanding	MC Read 45.2 MC Write 39.4 MC Mixed 36 115% 40.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 21 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

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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 $134	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