MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 45% Yacht	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a relatively low single core score, this CPU can handle email, light web browsing and basic audio/video playback, but it will struggle to handle CPU intensive tasks. Finally, with a gaming score of 39%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	33% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7893
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893) (all builds)
Memory	16.7 GB free of 20 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 5760 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151224
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 21:55
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8120 25,690 User benchmarks, average bench 56% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.1 GHz, turbo 1.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	39% Below average	Memory 63.1 1-Core 23.6 2-Core 43.4 31% 43.4 Pts	4-Core 83.2 8-Core 124 13% 104 Pts	64-Core 119 7% 119 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 63%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	33% Below average	Lighting 30 Reflection 44.7 Parallax 61.6 24% 45.4 fps	MRender 70.8 Gravity 61.6 Splatting 52.9 50% 61.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 520GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP64 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 196876603 (03) Spinup time 100 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11525 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 424837528 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18367 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11485 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4084289730 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098504 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 55 605749284 (C2) HDA temperature 36 45 77309411364 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 47 24 196876603 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56.7% Above average	Read 100 Write 97.6 Mixed 102 75% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.34 94% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 68%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 281GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 36 (03) Spinup time 149 137 3508 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2223 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28730 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 801 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 463 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1759 (C2) HDA temperature 111 87 32 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 64 64 26423 (F1) Unknown 200 200 20764277806 (F2) Unknown 200 200 22964565367	59.7% Above average	Read 106 Write 102 Mixed 101 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.33 89% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 69%
WDC WD32 00JB-00KFA0 320GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 203GB free, PID 6204 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	19.5% Very poor	Read 36.7 Write 36.7 Mixed 36.2 47% 36.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.43 83% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBBNAUDEBA Nanya NT4GC64B88B1NF-DI 8GBBNAUDEBA 20GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 667, 800, 667 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	29.6% Poor	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 11.9 31% 10.8 GB/s	SC Read 4.9 SC Write 5 SC Mixed 7.6 17% 5.83 GB/s	Latency 119 34% 119 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 29.6% Great: 38%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	121x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	43x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	7x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	8x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	6x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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