MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7893
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893) (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151224
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '20 at 22:26
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8370-$175 34,720 User benchmarks, average bench 62% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 73.6 2-Core 149 64% 104 Pts	4-Core 294 8-Core 443 46% 369 Pts	64-Core 440 27% 440 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% MSI(1462 8C95) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 442.19 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Lighting 74.7 Reflection 73.3 Parallax 63.4 61% 70.5 fps	MRender 71.8 Gravity 72.6 Splatting 75.5 60% 73.3 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 84GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 168 150 142 134 145 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	73.7% Very good	Read 350 Write 230 Mixed 256 SusWrite 145 55% 245 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 69 4K Mixed 39.2 133% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 188 148% 203 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 159GB free Firmware: KC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 105 105 105 105 104 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	58.4% Above average	Read 98.9 Write 94 Mixed 61 SusWrite 105 66% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.9 144% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 2,474 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 800 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	48% Average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 11.8 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 62%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	121x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	43x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	7x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	8x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	6x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16