MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


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 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	24.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	4.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 08:31
Run Duration	281 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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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 i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 208 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 686 70% 565 Pts	64-Core 853 53% 853 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80% Very good	Lighting 98 Reflection 113 Parallax 96.8 80% 103 fps	MRender 97.1 Gravity 100 Splatting 97.1 80% 98.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 477GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11073 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1407 (B1) Unknown 99 1 23 (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 64 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 96 96 3246 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10195529444	103% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 485 Mixed 505 112% 500 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 68.1 4K Mixed 39.5 128% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 132 140% 232 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 442GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	183% Outstanding	Read 430 Write 208 Mixed 217 212% 285 MB/s	4K Read 1.94 4K Write 3.66 4K Mixed 0.48 202% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 183% Great: 213%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB 33,521 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 8GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	12.9% Very poor	Read 38.1 Write 7.16 Mixed 8.09 16% 17.8 MB/s	4K Read 4.08 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 1.1 107% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 12.9% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 3,531 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.3% Good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 23.9 MC Mixed 21.6 70% 24.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 18.8 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 129%

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Gaming 88%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

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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	110x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 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 $109Bench 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 $40Bench 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 $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