MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	76.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160913
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 02 '17 at 06:46
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 121 2-Core 241 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 776 77% 627 Pts	64-Core 953 59% 953 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2973) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 43% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 466GB free Firmware: BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3438 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1111 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 78 53 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 259 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13323856772	83.9% Excellent	Read 508 Write 166 Mixed 329 73% 335 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 68.5 4K Mixed 28.6 139% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 100 122% 217 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 126%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 152GB free (System drive) Firmware: 00RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1913 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 583 (A5) Unknown 100 100 210495275575 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 40 (A8) Unknown 100 100 22 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 55 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 50 214749085724 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2499709764176 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3287 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5827 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5053 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5126 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	76.9% Very good	Read 470 Write 236 Mixed 195 66% 300 MB/s	4K Read 33.8 4K Write 69.1 4K Mixed 19.9 113% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 51.2 88% 175 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 101%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 139GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 2610701 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 38 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -139182710186951 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2269 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 402 (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 2610701 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 38 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2610701 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2610701 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 24089 (EA) Unknown 0 0 27878 (F1) Unknown 0 0 27878 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23942	59.4% Above average	Read 194 Write 173 Mixed 144 38% 170 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 17.7 115% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 41.2 68% 130 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 66%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$98 11,843 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 119GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Read 697 Write 299 Mixed 400 102% 466 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 37.7 158% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 139 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 52.6 88% 165 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 107%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 66GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 2713530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 124768799956148 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3066 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 970 (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 2713530 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2713530 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2713530 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11062 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10918 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10918 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12315	51.6% Above average	Read 204 Write 99.4 Mixed 128 32% 144 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 15.2 112% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 33.8 47% 87.2 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 61%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 44104656 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 66 66 35271 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13209667 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18189 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 324 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 81 40 1211534016531 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 26 26 148662 (C2) HDA temperature 19 60 38654705683 (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 -129592048219702 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14090213120 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62413430154	84.9% Excellent	Read 138 Write 158 Mixed 162 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 96%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 416GB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215275088 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 105833761 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4393 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2102 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 51 353173525 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 30 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35265 (C2) HDA temperature 21 49 34359738389 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 45 215275088 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	42.9% Average	Read 76.6 Write 72.7 Mixed 65.4 54% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.39 87% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M4C3000C15 4x8GB 4,019 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (98^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	125% Outstanding	MC Read 44.7 MC Write 57.8 MC Mixed 45.3 141% 49.3 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 21.7 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 56.1 71% 56.1 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 113%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	82x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	28x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	47x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	22x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	7x
850 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 110%, 154,399 samples	6x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	6x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	11x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 4x8GBUnknownBench 87%, 1,963 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	6x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $635

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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