MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	69.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	165% 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.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '16 at 16:22
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 229 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 708 71% 575 Pts	64-Core 904 56% 904 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.1% Good	Lighting 89.5 Reflection 87.6 Parallax 77.2 73% 84.8 fps	MRender 82.4 Gravity 77.6 Splatting 69.4 62% 76.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 480GB-$300 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 144% 288GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TP Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2924 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1929 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 497 (64) Unknown 100 100 6444288 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 82 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 49 (B2) Unknown 100 100 67 (B4) Unknown 100 100 19022 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 39 100 266288889895 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2924 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 1494 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 2924 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7679 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7041 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5070 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 12050	165% Outstanding	Read 1,300 Write 943 Mixed 931 235% 1,058 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 19.8 141% 54.9 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 19.6 100% 228 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 165% Great: 181%
Seagate ST3500412AS 500GB 3,833 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 605GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113458972 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6817 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 57878441 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9219 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2956 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295163934 (BD) vendor-specific 76 76 24 (BE) vendor-specific 69 49 605749279 (C2) HDA temperature 31 51 47244640287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 30 113458972 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 10 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 96168612738555 (F1) Unknown 100 253 310990296 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2982714021	51.8% Above average	Read 92.2 Write 88.2 Mixed 89.2 68% 89.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 63%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 605GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 135909565 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7546 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 43 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 67713205 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9216 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3233 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 17180131443 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 54 639238176 (C2) HDA temperature 32 46 38654705696 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 23 135909565 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 18 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 17751099852095 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3981007312 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1894512958	52.5% Above average	Read 94 Write 88.8 Mixed 91.6 69% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.64 127% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 70%
SMI USB DISK 32GB 2,654 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 23GB free, PID null Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	5.38% Terrible	Read 20.8 Write 5.98 Mixed 9.52 13% 12.1 MB/s	4K Read 4.45 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.004 17% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 5.38% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2800 C14 4x4GB 1,174 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM 2800 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	101% Outstanding	MC Read 39.2 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 35.7 110% 38.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 21.2 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%

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Gaming 123%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 108%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	44x
Core i7-6950XIntel $499Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	18x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	10x

GPU
RTX 3070-TiNvidia $499Bench 158%, 218,061 samples	9x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	7x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBWDBench 168%, 15,006 samples	9x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	4x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	4x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 4x16GBUnknownBench 90%, 3,173 samples	4x
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	4x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	4x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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