MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.5% 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	70.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7893
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893) (all builds)
Memory	7.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151224
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 31 '17 at 06:18
Run Duration	461 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-9590-$298 26,109 User benchmarks, average bench 63% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Memory 93.4 1-Core 77.3 2-Core 144 65% 105 Pts	4-Core 259 8-Core 453 43% 356 Pts	64-Core 429 27% 429 Pts
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Device(0000 0000) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.5% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 157 Parallax 134 97% 137 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 150 Splatting 116 104% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 43245769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6777458400803 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1072 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 358 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 47 60132622371 (C2) HDA temperature 35 47 60132622371 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 43245769 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 43245769 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 43245769 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19442 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13512 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13512 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12765	70.2% Very good	Read 489 Write 244 Mixed 311 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 16.2 104% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 72.8 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 14.4 42% 87 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 94%
Samsung HM641JI 640GB-$50 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 165GB free Firmware: 2AJ10003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 61 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 85 3423 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3795 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8253 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 98 98 2617 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3608 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 252 252 0 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 45 240518889509 (BF) G-sense error rate 72 72 290955 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 106433 (C2) HDA temperature 63 45 240518889509 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 13536	46.7% Average	Read 80 Write 82.9 Mixed 77 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.72 4K Mixed 0.37 75% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 50%
WD VelociRaptor 2.5" 500GB-$122 435 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 36GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 198 198 3066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 827 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10893 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 805 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 183 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 654 (C2) HDA temperature 106 101 44 (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	83.1% Excellent	Read 143 Write 146 Mixed 150 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 3.81 4K Mixed 0.32 146% 1.69 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 113%
Apple HDD HTS541010A9E662 1TB 4,614 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 24GB free Firmware: JA0AB5D0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 166 166 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1009 (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 92 92 3896 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 996 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 17179869393 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11773 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 223339348005 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 19	39.7% Below average	Read 73.2 Write 65 Mixed 64.5 51% 67.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.14 52% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 39.7% Great: 59%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 12GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 160 158 4966 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5256 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26496 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3532 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2240 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5247 (C2) HDA temperature 104 88 43 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 5 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 180 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	46.9% Average	Read 80.5 Write 82.6 Mixed 86.3 63% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.4 95% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 62%
SanDisk Cruzer 32GB 3,296 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 17GB free, PID 5530 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	9.69% Terrible	Read 21.9 Write 2.77 Mixed 6.69 10% 10.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.16 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.97 103% 2.24 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.69% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 4,489 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43% Average	MC Read 15.3 MC Write 14.4 MC Mixed 14.3 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 10.8 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 12.1 30% 10.7 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 79%

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Gaming 34%

Sail boat

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	121x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	43x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	7x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	8x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	6x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $358

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 $178	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