MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93)

Performance Results


Gaming 138% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 119% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 102%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	134% 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	83.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Micro-Star MS-7A93
Motherboard	MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93) (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170602
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '18 at 03:15
Run Duration	272 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 150 2-Core 301 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 591 8-Core 1,079 100% 835 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 201 Parallax 206 154% 199 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 185 Splatting 127 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17611 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 289 (B1) Unknown 99 99 54 (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 64 52 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 127 (F1) Unknown 99 99 34266902121	83.2% Excellent	Read 528 Write 177 Mixed 198 65% 301 MB/s	4K Read 34.6 4K Write 91.4 4K Mixed 31.7 142% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 85.1 93% 160 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 66GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 146 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36529 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 755 (B1) Unknown 92 92 93 (B3) Unknown 99 99 146 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 146 (BB) vendor-specific 71 71 290897 (BE) vendor-specific 66 47 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 290897 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 518 (F1) Unknown 99 99 180442219178
Poor: 78% Great: 126%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 349GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 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 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 178 175 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14035 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 40811 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1100 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 822 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13238 (C2) HDA temperature 118 92 29 (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	44.3% Average	Read 80.5 Write 73.7 Mixed 39.9 48% 64.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.22 75% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 44.3% Great: 76%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 107GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 160 157 4983 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8969 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 8 8 67830 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1972 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1354 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8942 (C2) HDA temperature 117 81 30 (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	47% Average	Read 103 Write 60.8 Mixed 60.8 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.28 88% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 62%
Maxtor 6B200M0 204GB-$81 1,170 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 102GB free Firmware: BANC1B70 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 205 157 10039 (04) Start/Stop count 241 241 24062 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (06) Read channel margin 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 249 0 (08) Seek timer performance 249 230 59889 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 39497 (0A) Spinup retry count 251 212 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 250 0 (0C) Power cycle count 243 243 4129 (C0) Power-off retract count 253 253 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 253 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 252 14008 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 199 199 0 (C8) Write error rate 253 252 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 252 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 252 0 (CB) Run out cancel 253 252 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 253 252 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 253 252 0 (CF) Spin high current 251 212 1 (D0) Spin buzz 253 252 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 234 234 231 (D2) Unknown 253 252 0 (D3) Unknown 253 252 0 (D4) Unknown 253 253 0	27% Poor	Read 52.8 Write 40.2 Mixed 44.3 34% 45.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 3.62 4K Mixed 0.2 104% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 27% Great: 35%
Seagate ST380013AS 80GB-$75 2,837 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 57GB free Firmware: 8.12 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 55 45 167704183 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 73 73 27931 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 575768186 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 56586 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3962 (C2) HDA temperature 30 52 17179869214 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 55 45 167704183 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	27.4% Poor	Read 48.7 Write 46.5 Mixed 37.9 33% 44.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.34 75% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x8GB 41,916 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 33.2 MC Write 61.4 MC Mixed 31.3 120% 42 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 12.9 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 59.3 67% 59.3 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 115%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 SLI PLUS (MS-7A93)

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $203Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	242x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	164x
Core i9-7900XIntel $462Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	93x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	80x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	59x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	35x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	29x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	24x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	139x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	90x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	72x

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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