MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.6% 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	548% 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	88.8 GB free of 128 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 27 '17 at 23:24
Run Duration	305 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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 i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 129 2-Core 247 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 830 79% 652 Pts	64-Core 1029 64% 1029 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 93%

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)	83.6% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 120 Parallax 106 87% 111 fps	MRender 92.4 Gravity 98.3 Splatting 90.2 76% 93.6 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 83.6% 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 4622 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2383 (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 67 46 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 792 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7927032105
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 4622 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2382 (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 66 44 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 793 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7945856886
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 8061 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1698 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 792 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5968887567
Poor: 77% Great: 124%
OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe 480GB-$396 526 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 372GB free Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13442962 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -20091857002616 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3346 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1343 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 63 73018572861 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13442962 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13442962 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13442962 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3292 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1529 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1529 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5319	168% Outstanding	Read 1,826 Write 837 Mixed 1,033 271% 1,232 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 88.3 4K Mixed 21.9 120% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 32.9 DQ Write 371 DQ Mixed 211 160% 205 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 168% Great: 172%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 269GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	548% Outstanding	Read 3,940 Write 101 Mixed 194 295% 1,412 MB/s	4K Read 953 4K Write 6.12 4K Mixed 6.02 1,454% 322 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 548% Great: 283%
WD VelociRaptor 1TB-$268 8,165 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 774GB free Firmware: 04.06A00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 201 198 2908 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4898 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12771 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3849 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1897 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3000 (C2) HDA temperature 115 96 35 (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	94.4% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 155 Mixed 152 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.69 4K Write 4.59 4K Mixed 0.39 199% 2.22 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 94.4% 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 above expectations (67^th percentile)	23.2% Poor	Read 101 Write 23.7 Mixed 35.7 54% 53.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.19 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.34 56% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 23.2% 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 @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	119% Outstanding	MC Read 41.7 MC Write 52.8 MC Mixed 45.3 133% 46.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 22.4 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 119% 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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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 $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