MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.6% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	0.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150323
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 20:24
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	74.6% Very good	Memory 83.7 1-Core 88.8 2-Core 186 69% 120 Pts	4-Core 353 8-Core 600 58% 476 Pts	64-Core 740 46% 740 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	64.9% Good	Lighting 82.8 Reflection 81.9 Parallax 77.9 68% 80.9 fps	MRender 79.1 Gravity 74.4 Splatting 68.2 60% 73.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 58486155 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -1580547957149 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 945 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 33 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 41 81607065635 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 81607065635 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 58486155 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 58486155 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 58486155 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17041 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11766 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11766 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9337	66.6% Good	Read 508 Write 222 Mixed 292 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 51 4K Mixed 18.2 84% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 80.5 85% 139 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 94%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 40GB free Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4295855 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 110037062142657 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2182 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 151 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 89 68725309473 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4295855 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4295855 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4295855 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11890 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9212 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9212 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12587	61.7% Good	Read 509 Write 134 Mixed 179 59% 274 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 72.3 4K Mixed 14.2 92% 36.7 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 42.9 60% 111 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 87%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 161 5908 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5195 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22621 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2575 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 120 120 240023 (C2) HDA temperature 124 114 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	35.6% Below average	Read 65.7 Write 58.4 Mixed 4.75 31% 42.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.15 57% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 67%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 381GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 178 176 8075 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1127 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7768 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 937 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 22 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 191 191 28987 (C2) HDA temperature 116 111 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.7% Average	Read 78.1 Write 74.1 Mixed 63.3 54% 71.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.17 50% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM 3000 MHz clocked @ 2134 MHz Performing below potential (62^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	95.5% Outstanding	MC Read 36.7 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 34.7 106% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 15.9 SC Mixed 18.4 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 117%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 47%

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Desktop 80%

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Workstation 42%

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Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) - $289

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	446x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	87x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	56x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	50x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
TS512GSSD230S 512GBTranscendBench 92%, 2,577 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	13x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair $210Bench 88%, 3,970 samples	12x

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Total price: $1,028

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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