MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	118% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). 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	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160525
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 24 '17 at 14:53
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 104 2-Core 212 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 671 67% 544 Pts	64-Core 849 53% 849 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2780 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	118% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 163 Parallax 134 126% 150 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 181 Splatting 123 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C4005T2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 12 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2274 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1220 (64) Unknown 100 100 5857920 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 335 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 88 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 46 100 283469021230 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 12 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 10 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 12 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (EA) Unknown 100 100 21803 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17800 (F2) Unknown 100 100 25817 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 35232	118% Outstanding	Read 1,102 Write 713 Mixed 829 195% 881 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 47.7 4K Mixed 15.1 84% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 28.4 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 13.8 43% 86.6 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 159%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 90GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4690580 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 131194071026787 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1589 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 532 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 46 64427524124 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 64427524124 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4690580 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4690580 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4690580 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 115964116992 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3129 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3098 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3098 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3683 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2686990	66.9% Good	Read 500 Write 228 Mixed 285 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 14.9 80% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 36.5 76% 155 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 688GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192021892 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14417 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 32 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 13065582253 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14729 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 37 5484 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 94490854083 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 504823837 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 42949672989 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 22 192021892 (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 -127878356241089 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3702916320 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3298367025	60.3% Good	Read 112 Write 97.6 Mixed 101 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.37 89% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C15 2x8GB 434 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.4% Very good	MC Read 35.1 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 24.9 77% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 22.6 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 110%

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Gaming 78%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	319x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	126x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	120x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	82x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	61x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	22x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	28x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	27x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $639

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