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

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.1% 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	63.5% 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). 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	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170602
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 00:09
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% CPU0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 83.8 1-Core 150 2-Core 300 96% 178 Pts	4-Core 521 8-Core 942 88% 731 Pts	64-Core 1,054 65% 1,054 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.5% 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: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2114 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 113 Reflection 128 Parallax 118 92% 119 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 106 Splatting 113 89% 108 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.1% 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 (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 476 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 333 (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 68 61 167505035296 (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 100 100 474 (F1) Unknown 100 100 495 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1168 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2 (F5) Unknown 100 100 8 (F6) Unknown 100 100 99776	73.9% Very good	Read 498 Write 339 Mixed 350 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 63.5 4K Mixed 9.01 99% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 12.1 43% 88.8 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 132GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 86 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 52 (64) Unknown 100 100 170880 (65) Unknown 100 100 32000 (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 50 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1333 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 100 171800068128 (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 100 100 321 (EA) Unknown 100 100 187 (F1) Unknown 100 100 294 (F2) Unknown 100 100 177 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	64.2% Good	Read 460 Write 259 Mixed 257 72% 325 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 55.3 4K Mixed 12.1 91% 32.6 MB/s	DQ Read 29.9 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 9.98 31% 63.1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 88%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3K87RA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 100 100 328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 205 (64) Unknown 100 100 1062560 (65) Unknown 100 100 155328 (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 100 100 313 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 100 163210002460 (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 1922 (EA) Unknown 100 100 908 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1525 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1542 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	63.5% Good	Read 468 Write 257 Mixed 247 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 54 4K Mixed 10.6 89% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30.6 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 28.2 40% 69.5 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 554GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171679160 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 800 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 112563237 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4316 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 667 (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 72 58 471269404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8805 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 51539607580 (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 -108220290953226 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29672984600 (F2) Unknown 100 253 88883836837	91.3% Outstanding	Read 157 Write 162 Mixed 156 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.2 86% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 112%

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)	94.3% Outstanding	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 53.1 MC Mixed 28.3 107% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 11.7 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 73.8 54% 73.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 94.3% 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 $462Bench 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: $795

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) $30	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