MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.6% 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	270% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	25.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 03 '16 at 05:37
Run Duration	129 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing way above expectations (89^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 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 121 2-Core 242 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 714 71% 579 Pts	64-Core 914 57% 914 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% 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 6173) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 121 Parallax 101 87% 109 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 99.5 Splatting 101 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$70 2,931 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 396GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57CZ Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	270% Outstanding	Read 1,907 Write 1,338 Mixed 1,179 326% 1,475 MB/s	4K Read 47 4K Write 209 4K Mixed 65.6 266% 107 MB/s	DQ Read 773 DQ Write 618 DQ Mixed 222 295% 538 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 270% Great: 242%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 801GB free Firmware: JP4O 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 89 89 393285 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 96 (03) Spinup time 128 128 25788612914 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6015 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 34 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 31116 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1661 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6459 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6459 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 219044446242 (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	75.2% Very good	Read 136 Write 126 Mixed 121 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.15 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.27 58% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 74%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 801GB free Firmware: JP4O Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 99 (03) Spinup time 125 125 25789399345 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6065 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 132 132 34 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 31274 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1756 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6520 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6520 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 201864577059 (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	80% Very good	Read 155 Write 124 Mixed 107 96% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.18 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.2 56% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (54^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	79.7% Very good	MC Read 34.8 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.8 83% 29.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 22.2 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 60 67% 60 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 110%

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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	326x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	173x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	116x
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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
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 $269	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 $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