MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	101% 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	128GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 128GB 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 (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	113.7 GB free of 128 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160411
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 03:30
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6800K-$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 as expected (56^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 86.7 1-Core 108 2-Core 215 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 633 64% 518 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 169 Parallax 165 112% 157 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 136 Splatting 118 99% 121 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 455GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13903 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 106 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 68 62 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42598845	111% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 46.4 168% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 117 138% 242 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 2TB-$275 8,527 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 293GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19005 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 174 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 100 (F1) Unknown 99 99 57532126969	101% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 413 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 30.2 137% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 146 153% 253 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 135%
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 139GB free Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 41407 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 526 (B1) Unknown 98 98 21 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 305 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20529809575	80.5% Excellent	Read 490 Write 307 Mixed 250 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 17 107% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 36.8 84% 178 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C16 8x16GB 175 User benchmarks, average bench 124% 8 of 8 slots used 128GB DIMM DDR4 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	109% Outstanding	MC Read 40.2 MC Write 47.1 MC Mixed 41.3 122% 42.9 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 20 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 70.7 57% 70.7 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 177%

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Gaming 123%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 108%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	44x
Core i7-6950XIntel $508Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	18x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	10x

GPU
RTX 3070-TiNvidia $450Bench 158%, 218,061 samples	9x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	7x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBWDBench 168%, 15,006 samples	9x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	4x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	4x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 4x16GBUnknownBench 90%, 3,173 samples	4x
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	4x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	4x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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