MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54)

Performance Results


Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	325% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160817
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 10:37
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 7,962 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 90.6 1-Core 116 2-Core 233 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 726 69% 568 Pts	64-Core 923 57% 923 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K4000 11,114 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Nvidia(10DE 097C) 3GB CLim: 810 MHz, MLim: 1404 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 377.11 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	13.8% Very poor	Lighting 16 Reflection 14.4 Parallax 19.1 13% 16.5 fps	MRender 20.9 Gravity 18.8 Splatting 16.9 15% 18.9 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 13.8% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 500GB 3,936 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 241GB free Firmware: EMT41B6Q 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 97 97 11646 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 304 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (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 51 27 49 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24471213367	89.4% Excellent	Read 497 Write 415 Mixed 220 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 71.5 4K Mixed 27.2 133% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 124 DQ Write 79.1 DQ Mixed 60.6 56% 88 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 128%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 232GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	325% Outstanding	Read 2,686 Write 1,775 Mixed 1,707 455% 2,056 MB/s	4K Read 56.7 4K Write 183 4K Mixed 70.9 274% 104 MB/s	DQ Read 885 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 243 267% 468 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 325% Great: 353%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 42GB free Firmware: 070H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^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 11131 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3256 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 130 (AD) Unknown 99 99 59 (AE) Unknown 100 100 222 (B5) Unknown 100 100 12214928148648 (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 84 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 72 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	67.1% Good	Read 479 Write 256 Mixed 338 79% 357 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 5.93 99% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 5.91 34% 78.6 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 74%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 350GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 145 132 3725 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1168 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5809 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 991 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 52963 (C2) HDA temperature 112 102 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	57.2% Above average	Read 93 Write 106 Mixed 74.7 68% 91.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.22 80% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 85%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$58 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 232GB free Firmware: AX0R Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1718 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 851 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2114 (0A) Spinup retry count 116 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 674 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 210724 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864642595 (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 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 97 97 1425 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 266 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	58% Above average	Read 102 Write 99.8 Mixed 97.9 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.21 67% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 62%
WD Re 2TB-$54 16,276 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 197GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8358 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7716 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17875 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3108 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 178 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7537 (C2) HDA temperature 113 99 39 (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	48% Average	Read 88.1 Write 78.7 Mixed 90.9 65% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.41 114% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 83%
WD VelociRaptor 300GB-$90 11,249 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 55GB free Firmware: 04.04V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 196 196 3158 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9485 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5048 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 540 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9501 (C2) HDA temperature 109 101 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	50.8% Above average	Read 84.5 Write 91.9 Mixed 60.5 59% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.94 4K Mixed 0.7 173% 1.54 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 9965604-002.C00G 4x8GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 42.8 MC Mixed 39.8 116% 40.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 21.5 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 106%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 83%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	5x
Xeon E5-1650 v3IntelBench 77%, 7,962 samples	4x
Core i7-6950XIntel $499Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	4x
Quadro RTX 4000NvidiaBench 98%, 9,173 samples	3x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	3x

SSD
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	3x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $249Bench 279%, 18,356 samples	2x
MX100 512GBCrucial $200Bench 88%, 31,545 samples	2x

RAM
M391A2K43BB1-CTD 4x16GBSamsungBench 104%, 120 samples	2x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	2x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 79%, 698 samples	2x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $654

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