MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95)

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 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	69.3% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A95
Motherboard	MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95) (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170602
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 23:41
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	29%

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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 i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% CPU0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 82.8 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 91% 168 Pts	4-Core 557 8-Core 1,116 99% 837 Pts	64-Core 1,552 96% 1,552 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2089 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 223GB free Firmware: SBFK10D7 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 452 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 317 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 13 (AA) Unknown 100 100 25 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131080 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C2) HDA temperature 70 62 163210067998 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 471 (F1) Unknown 100 100 484 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1162 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2 (F5) Unknown 100 100 8 (F6) Unknown 100 100 98624	79.2% Very good	Read 502 Write 334 Mixed 346 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 8.52 96% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 12.5 79% 183 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 128GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^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 62 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (64) Unknown 100 100 121600 (65) Unknown 100 100 22560 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 35 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1333 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 171800068125 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 228 (EA) Unknown 100 100 132 (F1) Unknown 100 100 209 (F2) Unknown 100 100 120 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	65.1% Good	Read 465 Write 268 Mixed 256 73% 329 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 54 4K Mixed 12.5 91% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 25 39% 70.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 88%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3K87RA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st 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 100 100 303 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 189 (64) Unknown 100 100 1000672 (65) Unknown 100 100 150688 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 295 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 100 163210002458 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1810 (EA) Unknown 100 100 881 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1439 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1392 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	69.3% Good	Read 465 Write 256 Mixed 252 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 12.8 92% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 92.3 DQ Mixed 28.9 66% 142 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 555GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 213678280 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 783 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 112414349 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4293 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 651 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 20 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 60 420806681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8765 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 51539607577 (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 73349451485153 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29665153876 (F2) Unknown 100 253 88830409119	92.9% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 162 Mixed 163 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 87% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 112%
SanDisk Ultra Flair USB 3.0 16GB-$8 10,598 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 14GB free, PID 5591 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.2% Below average	Read 132 Write 40.2 Mixed 57.9 82% 76.6 MB/s	4K Read 6.07 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1.56 174% 3.51 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	MC Read 30 MC Write 51.9 MC Mixed 27.8 104% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 8.6 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 10.7 36% 12.7 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 61%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 92%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95)

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	108x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	91x
Core i9-7900XIntel $420Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	57x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	87x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	62x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	45x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	20x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	17x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	15x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	133x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	45x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	40x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $796

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 $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