MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.1%, 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	75.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	123.9 GB free of 128 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160913
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 21:06
Run Duration	229 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 115 2-Core 225 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 904 80% 681 Pts	64-Core 1,506 93% 1,506 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 159 Parallax 140 113% 146 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 145 Splatting 107 97% 120 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 303GB free (System drive) Firmware: P1003B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5096 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 66 (A0) Unknown 100 100 3 (A1) Unknown 100 100 21 (A3) Unknown 100 100 36 (A4) Unknown 100 100 15733 (A5) Unknown 100 100 103 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 326 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 13 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 12 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 612690 (F2) Unknown 100 100 321249 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1006912	75.3% Very good	Read 486 Write 390 Mixed 452 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 12.7 4K Write 60.3 4K Mixed 19.7 76% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 66.2 86% 151 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 105%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 284GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10298 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 107 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1126317806	96.5% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 368 Mixed 419 95% 428 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 54.6 4K Mixed 41.4 134% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 121 132% 225 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 134%
HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium 8TB-$94 1,061 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4.5TB free Firmware: A4GNT514 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 104 (03) Spinup time 144 144 38684721609 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 940 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3159 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 32 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4588 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4588 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 171799805986 (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 200 200 168	90.1% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 140 Mixed 143 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.73 147% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 113%
HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium 8TB-$94 1,061 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4.5TB free Firmware: A4GNT514 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 104 (03) Spinup time 145 145 38684393926 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 884 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4426 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4426 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 184684707876 (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	94.1% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 157 Mixed 152 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.84 163% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 113%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: ML6OA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 113 (03) Spinup time 135 135 34386411925 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 16474 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 148 148 28 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 55082 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 773 (C0) Power-off retract count 87 87 16482 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 16482 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 210453856291 (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	62.6% Good	Read 108 Write 110 Mixed 97 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 73%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1TB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54546416 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4981 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 51 99272615620 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 46315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 584 (B7) Unknown 55 55 45 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 1606343000468 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 63 48 706347045 (C2) HDA temperature 37 52 64424509477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 21 54546416 (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 99334003665755 (F1) Unknown 100 253 211089302 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3605688151	48% Average	Read 93.5 Write 73.6 Mixed 79.1 62% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.39 92% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 56%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 931GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4325 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3077 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12380 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 562 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 327 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2751 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 37 (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	86.7% Excellent	Read 175 Write 127 Mixed 122 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.49 146% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C14 8x16GB-$1,291 53 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 8 of 8 slots used 128GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	MC Read 57.4 MC Write 52.5 MC Mixed 46.4 149% 52.1 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 22.8 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 135%

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Workstation 78%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	82x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	28x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	47x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	22x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	7x
850 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 110%, 154,399 samples	6x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	6x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	11x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 4x8GBUnknownBench 87%, 1,963 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	6x

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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 $40	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