MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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 79.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	74.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	105% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (90%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 03:13
Run Duration	255 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	90%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^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 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 96.5 2-Core 193 73% 125 Pts	4-Core 385 8-Core 621 62% 503 Pts	64-Core 768 48% 768 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2071 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.3% Very good	Lighting 107 Reflection 54.9 Parallax 44.7 88% 69 fps	MRender 67.8 Gravity 47.5 Splatting 62.1 49% 59.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 169GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7480 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 601 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 208 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262156 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 96 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1276	56.9% Above average	Read 496 Write 122 Mixed 182 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 7.64 74% 29.6 MB/s	DQ Read 264 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 31.9 67% 140 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 97%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 99GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8993 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 766 (B1) Unknown 98 98 36 (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 58 54 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 138 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21920377419	105% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 39.1 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 41.4 150% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 111 131% 231 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$84 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 225178776 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 269 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 55 54 120270050808 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2923 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 269 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 56 639041574 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13308 (C2) HDA temperature 38 44 73014444070 (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 -67890548046017 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13410757738 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43259381378	87.9% Excellent	Read 160 Write 147 Mixed 150 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.22 85% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 170GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2333 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1222 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 814 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 191 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1030 (C2) HDA temperature 107 100 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	89.8% Excellent	Read 167 Write 146 Mixed 145 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.29 92% 1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 102GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 45013471 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6600 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 204245998 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 44665 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1169 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 236226805819 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 52 605487140 (C2) HDA temperature 36 48 73014444068 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 16 45013471 (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 -408021846661 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3071360269 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1717134666	37.4% Below average	Read 70.2 Write 60.2 Mixed 70.3 51% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.16 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.24 51% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 68%
SAMSUNG MP0603H 60GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 14GB free, PID 0524 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	10.2% Very poor	Read 22.7 Write 20.9 Mixed 18.2 26% 20.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.26 35% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 10.2% Great: 15%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.4% Good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 19.6 64% 22.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 17.1 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 105%

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Gaming 47%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 42%

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

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	448x
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	51x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16