MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 85%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.5% 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	602% 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	128GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 128GB 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	89 GB free of 128 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 20:50
Run Duration	302 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	85% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 100 2-Core 206 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 401 8-Core 652 64% 527 Pts	64-Core 1,101 68% 1,101 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 121 Parallax 106 88% 112 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 98.2 Splatting 85.3 75% 92 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 3TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4570 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2216 (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 70 46 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 679 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7899883814
Poor: 78% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 3TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4570 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2215 (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 68 44 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 680 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7918426987
Poor: 78% Great: 135%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 615GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8011 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1525 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 677 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5958112647
Poor: 77% Great: 124%
OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe 480GB-$396 526 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 373GB free Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 12449810 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -34445637705900 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3173 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1223 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 51 63 73018572851 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12449810 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12449810 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12449810 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3243 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1522 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1522 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5242	156% Outstanding	Read 1,754 Write 867 Mixed 1,026 268% 1,216 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 63.7 4K Mixed 21.2 102% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 73.3 DQ Mixed 188 104% 97 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 172%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 292GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	602% Outstanding	Read 4,686 Write 86.5 Mixed 169 343% 1,647 MB/s	4K Read 1,017 4K Write 5.21 4K Mixed 5.11 1,550% 342 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 602% Great: 283%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 776GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 198 2983 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4728 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12717 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3679 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1778 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2949 (C2) HDA temperature 121 96 29 (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	95% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 153 Mixed 163 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 4.01 4K Mixed 0.33 156% 1.81 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 117%
Lexar JumpDrive S25 USB 3.0 16GB-$19 1,806 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 13GB free, PID a838 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	20.8% Poor	Read 102 Write 17.5 Mixed 38.1 52% 52.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.02 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.35 42% 1.91 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 20.8% Great: 27%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C14 8x16GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 130% 8 of 8 slots used 128GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	128% Outstanding	MC Read 55.6 MC Write 44.2 MC Mixed 51.2 144% 50.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 24.3 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 55.1 73% 55.1 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 169%

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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 $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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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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Total price: $624

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