MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 68.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	102% 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	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.

System	MSI MS-7893
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893) (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151224
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 17:16
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (43^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	68.9% Good	Memory 85.5 1-Core 72.6 2-Core 147 62% 102 Pts	4-Core 284 8-Core 450 45% 367 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3609) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 167 Parallax 193 98% 160 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 170 Splatting 124 114% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 960GB-$90 2,663 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 408GB free Firmware: Z331 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 27 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1769494 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 23 330712481839 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 30065491979 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 787 (EA) Unknown 100 100 856 (F1) Unknown 253 253 846 (F2) Unknown 253 253 82 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.3% Good	Read 523 Write 238 Mixed 468 91% 410 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 7.32 83% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 7.72 52% 119 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 78%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: X312 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 2734 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 508 (A5) Unknown 100 100 524061246455 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 58 249109348394 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4754549507155 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1864 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10576 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9407 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5351 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.7% Very good	Read 480 Write 314 Mixed 297 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 47.1 4K Mixed 19.3 95% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 51.7 68% 125 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 101%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 177398120 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 997 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16328174 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2565 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 505 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 605356063 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7675 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 60129542175 (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 -73568494811382 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5964250927 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1261693831174	83.3% Excellent	Read 152 Write 137 Mixed 156 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.6 189% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.1% Average	MC Read 16.4 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 15 43% 15.2 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 8.4 SC Mixed 12.1 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 71.6 56% 71.6 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 71%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

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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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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