MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	117% 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	104% 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	28GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 28GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	23.9 GB free of 28 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151102
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '17 at 23:02
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 89 1-Core 99.3 2-Core 197 74% 128 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 615 62% 504 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Lighting 165 Reflection 147 Parallax 131 134% 148 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 136 Splatting 109 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2328 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 606 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 74 60 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18351761924	104% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 398 Mixed 416 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 42.5 151% 51.8 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 114 131% 227 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 11GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 795 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 157 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4317709625	106% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 400 Mixed 418 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 75.6 4K Mixed 44.1 154% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 129 144% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 765GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151665520 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15821305 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2271 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 603 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 63 370081814 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17005 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 47244640278 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -65755949300593 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12659553807 (F2) Unknown 100 253 222618409468	93.8% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 160 Mixed 172 126% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 244GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 83424944 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 686 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1387495 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 158 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 64 386859031 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3316 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 51539607575 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -39479339384637 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5279605330 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1178670735	87.7% Excellent	Read 154 Write 152 Mixed 142 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 2666 C15 7x4GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 7 of 8 slots used 28GB DIMM 2667 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	92% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 33.8 MC Mixed 33.2 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 20.7 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 92% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 115%

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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 $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	126x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	120x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $415

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16