MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	240% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 22:49
Run Duration	293 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 111 2-Core 213 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 888 79% 666 Pts	64-Core 1,457 90% 1,457 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 146 Parallax 136 116% 142 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 135 Splatting 108 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 425GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6019 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1498 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17202544858 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 27 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 409 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 47 201864445982 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1112413307139 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4843 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8487 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6022 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10119 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.8% Very good	Read 482 Write 327 Mixed 308 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 53.2 4K Mixed 16 97% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 44.5 67% 124 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 107%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 337GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	240% Outstanding	Read 2,192 Write 1,345 Mixed 1,525 373% 1,687 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 51.7 204% 77.3 MB/s	DQ Read 143 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 83.3 93% 154 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 240% Great: 283%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 106GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 479 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 72 (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 65 52 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1027610513	103% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 412 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 75.5 4K Mixed 45.6 160% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 156 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 77.9 89% 149 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 171 4100 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2427 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11553 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2071 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 607 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15502 (C2) HDA temperature 117 106 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	76% Very good	Read 133 Write 132 Mixed 122 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.22 105% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 86%
Generic Flash Disk 8GB 32,093 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 8GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	6.63% Terrible	Read 22.5 Write 9.8 Mixed 14 18% 15.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.14 4K Write 0.008 4K Mixed 0.008 20% 1.72 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 6.63% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GX-D4-3200-MR 8x8GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 132% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	115% Outstanding	MC Read 48.2 MC Write 46.5 MC Mixed 41.2 129% 45.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 20.7 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 115% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 158%

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Typical X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885) Builds (Compare 1,531 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 65%

Destroyer

Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: MSI X99A SLI PLUS(MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	823x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	329x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	148x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	116x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	40x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	59x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	52x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	46x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $357

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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