MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	103% 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	282% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	18.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Mar 01 '18 at 22:35
Run Duration	377 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	66.2% Good	Memory 71.8 1-Core 93.6 2-Core 173 65% 113 Pts	4-Core 327 8-Core 529 52% 428 Pts	64-Core 684 42% 684 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 166 Parallax 172 104% 155 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 151 Splatting 110 102% 126 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 470GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4159 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 663 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 73 34 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 174 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17367053018	101% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 409 Mixed 420 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 42.7 150% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 265 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 90.1 101% 173 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 284GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2796 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 353 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 75 57 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 64 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6635186158	105% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 406 Mixed 420 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 44.5 158% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 107 117% 199 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 244GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3649 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 492 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 73 50 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 129 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11772576040	103% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 408 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 70.9 4K Mixed 42.1 154% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 109 119% 202 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 133%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	282% Outstanding	Read 2,601 Write 1,735 Mixed 1,856 457% 2,064 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 57.1 197% 69.4 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 115 124% 208 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 282% Great: 353%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 182GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4137 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 584 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 69 47 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 182 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3802475428	99% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 412 Mixed 410 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 39.7 144% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 92 100% 169 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 123GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2808 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 358 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 75 57 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 65 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7528094998	103% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 407 Mixed 408 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 40 4K Write 69.7 4K Mixed 43.3 153% 51 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 106 116% 199 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 133%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239853624 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2578 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8647779736 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7498 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 945 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 16 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 77 49 386531351 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 585 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39974 (C2) HDA temperature 23 51 8589934615 (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 133955734999191 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47266179042 (F2) Unknown 100 253 98751804219	105% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 170 Mixed 155 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 6.37 4K Mixed 0.45 200% 2.53 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 113%
WD My Book 25EE 8TB 12,029 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 316GB free, PID 25ee Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	37.9% Below average	Read 85.3 Write 90.1 Mixed 86.3 113% 87.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.5 83% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 98%
SDXC Card 64GB 12,175 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 22GB free, PID null Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	34.2% Below average	Read 88.8 Write 53.5 Mixed 74.5 88% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 10.7 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 2.38 200% 5.14 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 41%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 5GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	41.6% Average	Read 136 Write 58.6 Mixed 80.9 105% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 6.64 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 1.44 157% 3.51 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 2,357 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	86.4% Excellent	MC Read 29 MC Write 41.8 MC Mixed 31.4 97% 34.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.8 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 15.6 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 97.2 41% 97.2 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 124%

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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 $94Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $769

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