MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 57% Gunboat


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 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 99.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	55.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	183% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '17 at 01:16
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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 i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 138 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 555 8-Core 880 88% 717 Pts	64-Core 1091 68% 1091 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290X-$549 37,353 User benchmarks, average bench 51% AMD(1002 0B00) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1000 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.11.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	55.5% Above average	Lighting 69.3 Reflection 59.3 Parallax 90.5 56% 73 fps	MRender 59 Gravity 58.4 Splatting 75 54% 64.1 fps
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 238GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13072 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 615 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 66 57 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 287 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5248450231	118% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 492 Mixed 512 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 46.2 167% 61.3 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 330 DQ Mixed 172 179% 294 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 112GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4452003 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 -100897371687795 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 581 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 679 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4452003 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4452003 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4452003 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 13454 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9244 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9244 (F2) Unknown 0 0 32086	74.1% Very good	Read 519 Write 167 Mixed 251 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 19.8 125% 49.5 MB/s	DQ Read 144 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 48.3 66% 119 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 82%
Samsung MZVPV128HDGM-00000 128GB 2,105 User benchmarks, average bench 180% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW7 Max speed: Unknown Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 1,694 Write 588 Mixed 845 228% 1,042 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 47 201% 78.1 MB/s	DQ Read 622 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 170 191% 336 MB/s
Poor: 119% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 214%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 111813344 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1387 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11887626 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12587 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 262148 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 54 605290532 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23726 (C2) HDA temperature 36 46 55834574884 (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 -121676423488028 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7567061941 (F2) Unknown 100 253 21884607434	107% Outstanding	Read 196 Write 178 Mixed 167 135% 180 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 113%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 167GB free Firmware: 04.04V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 199 197 3033 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15838 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 33596 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3200 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1094 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15838 (C2) HDA temperature 109 96 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	45% Average	Read 79.6 Write 76.9 Mixed 75.5 58% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.6 140% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 45% Great: 69%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 47GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 175 3691 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14082 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 38913 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4524 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1653 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12428 (C2) HDA temperature 107 95 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 192 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 191 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 1 2	59.6% Above average	Read 131 Write 76.4 Mixed 88.7 74% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.23 76% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 2800 2OZ 4x4GB 872 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2800 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (100^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	116% Outstanding	MC Read 43.7 MC Write 49 MC Mixed 40.3 127% 44.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 24.9 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 104%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 69%

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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 $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 $92Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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) $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