MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	237% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 22:13
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 360 User benchmarks, average bench 75% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 22 cores, 44 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 92.1 1-Core 115 2-Core 207 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 738 68% 568 Pts	64-Core 2,683 166% 2,683 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 84%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 179GB free Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16477 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3654 (B1) Unknown 91 91 103 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 843 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67359595048	77.5% Very good	Read 503 Write 344 Mixed 357 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 36.2 4K Mixed 19.7 90% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 78.5 96% 170 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 118%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 2,708 Write 1,352 Mixed 1,486 406% 1,849 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 42.1 4K Mixed 31.3 112% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 106 119% 205 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 52GB free Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18391 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4336 (B1) Unknown 96 96 41 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 982 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11073427909	76.4% Very good	Read 495 Write 345 Mixed 343 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 35.7 4K Mixed 18.6 87% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 65.5 89% 166 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 108%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32757368 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3387 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 57244450 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7465 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1993 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163907 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 504430622 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 457 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22478 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 51539607582 (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 5862630364875 (F1) Unknown 100 253 71297387728 (F2) Unknown 100 253 541540701800	88.4% Excellent	Read 177 Write 130 Mixed 140 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 5.39 4K Mixed 0.44 164% 2.07 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 108%
Toshiba MQ01ACF032 320GB-$25 3,858 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2GB free Firmware: 1E 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1909 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1837 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 15501 (0A) Spinup retry count 135 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1210 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 80 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 153814 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236223594520 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 65 65 14043 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 255 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	43% Average	Read 74.6 Write 75 Mixed 72.1 56% 73.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.18 78% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 67%
Adata DashDrive UV128 USB 3.0 64GB-$11 783 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 59GB free, PID db8a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	15.9% Very poor	Read 35.9 Write 37.1 Mixed 25.3 41% 32.8 MB/s	4K Read 3.1 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.54 50% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.9% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 4x8GB 1,159 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	MC Read 60.3 MC Write 53.9 MC Mixed 51.5 158% 55.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.7 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 134%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) - $223

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	325x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	111x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	115x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	84x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	40x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x

RAM
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	30x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBCorsairBench 93%, 89,024 samples	22x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $769

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) $35	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