MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.1% 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	112% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	24.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 13 '17 at 20:36
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 101 2-Core 196 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 365 8-Core 624 60% 494 Pts	64-Core 771 48% 771 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.1% Very good	Lighting 100 Reflection 111 Parallax 100 82% 104 fps	MRender 92.7 Gravity 93.2 Splatting 86.8 74% 90.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 84GB free Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	149% Outstanding	Read 709 Write 651 Mixed 693 153% 685 MB/s	4K Read 42.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 61 200% 70.8 MB/s	DQ Read 494 DQ Write 322 DQ Mixed 200 205% 339 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 353%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7188 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1043 (B1) Unknown 98 1 111 (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 60 52 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 157 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28154940609	112% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 476 Mixed 493 111% 495 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 90.4 4K Mixed 41.6 155% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 145 160% 270 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 792GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 166 6558 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1036 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7178 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 973 (10) Unknown 4 196 79274475847 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 195 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 840 (C2) HDA temperature 115 108 35 (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	82.3% Excellent	Read 153 Write 133 Mixed 140 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 3.09 4K Mixed 0.22 108% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 2,702 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.6% Good	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 23.2 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 20.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 62 65% 62 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 115%

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Typical X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) Builds (Compare 789 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 79%

Battleship

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 $94Bench 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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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 $184	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