MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 86.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	58.5% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	43.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 03 '18 at 20:22
Run Duration	244 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 218 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 712 70% 571 Pts	64-Core 867 54% 867 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3669) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	58.5% Above average	Lighting 75.7 Reflection 74 Parallax 71.5 62% 73.7 fps	MRender 69.5 Gravity 66.4 Splatting 58.7 52% 64.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD 120GB 22,748 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: S9FM02.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13252 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 542 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 31 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1226441196 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 133 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21264355	43.5% Average	Read 356 Write 114 Mixed 128 43% 199 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 3.2 70% 26.1 MB/s	DQ Read 86.2 DQ Write 52.1 DQ Mixed 3.26 20% 47.2 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 94%
Kingston A400 120GB-$28 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 22GB free Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1073 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 61 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 6 (AA) Unknown 100 100 7 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196613 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 68 57 184684511264 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 466 (F1) Unknown 100 100 635 (F2) Unknown 100 100 347 (F4) Unknown 100 100 3 (F5) Unknown 100 100 5 (F6) Unknown 100 100 20472	58.6% Above average	Read 321 Write 263 Mixed 292 65% 292 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 58.9 4K Mixed 4.73 81% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 157 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 3.54 48% 112 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 85%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 24 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 66 59 10512 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10171 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13910 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1927 (B5) Unknown 100 100 17012076 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 593 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 29 304943136799 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 28 1 38634 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 567 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 10305	74% Very good	Read 105 Write 152 Mixed 119 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.28 100% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 72%
Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 320GB-$59 15,217 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 297GB free Firmware: PB3OC60F Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 132 132 98784247810 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 27144 (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 56 56 19441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 15723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35323987 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 500697 (C2) HDA temperature 196 196 266288496668 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	42.1% Average	Read 72.1 Write 74.5 Mixed 62.7 52% 69.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.37 83% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 42%
Hitachi HTS545025B9SA02 250GB 1,357 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 232GB free Firmware: PB2AC60W Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 196 196 64424509441 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 19544 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 49 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 25337 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 8738 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 798863917056 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30117527621 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 21 21 790027 (C2) HDA temperature 203 203 236223791131 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 47 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 44 44 17179883729	41.2% Average	Read 76.6 Write 66.8 Mixed 73.4 54% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.32 78% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 47%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 133GB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 144 144 83 (03) Spinup time 137 137 34386018705 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2463 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 17402 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1073 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2857 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2857 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 317828300834 (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	52% Above average	Read 79.8 Write 101 Mixed 113 74% 98 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB 16,624 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (44^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.2% Very good	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 23.5 72% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 21.6 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 62 65% 62 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 89%

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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 $94Bench 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: 62% - Good

Total price: $624

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 $179	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