MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54)

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	43.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	57.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160817
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '17 at 22:34
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6850K-$115 29,279 User benchmarks, average bench 84% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 88.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 237 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 754 75% 611 Pts	64-Core 953 59% 953 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3604) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 204 Parallax 199 148% 195 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 181 Splatting 128 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 96GB free Firmware: 5.41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4707706 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 108336255081891 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 999 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 136 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 51542491163 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4707706 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4707706 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4707706 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5652 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1131 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1131 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1332	77% Very good	Read 482 Write 195 Mixed 235 67% 304 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 88.9 4K Mixed 22.1 125% 47.8 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 65.1 88% 160 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 83%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 73GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14258 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1864 (E8) Unknown 100 100 12400222814 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	99.7% Outstanding	Read 471 Write 417 Mixed 404 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 98.5 4K Mixed 32.8 140% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 118 135% 233 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 106%
Samsung XP941 PCIe M.2 512GB 1,482 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 56GB free Firmware: UXM6401Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10648 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1894 (B1) Unknown 97 97 236 (B2) Unknown 92 92 390 (B3) Unknown 92 92 747 (B4) Unknown 92 92 9749 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0	158% Outstanding	Read 933 Write 905 Mixed 932 206% 923 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 42.7 158% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 454 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 117 158% 292 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 166%
WD Green 120GB (2016)-$84 21,990 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1483 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 203 (A5) Unknown 100 100 103129875086 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 21 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 50 214748364843 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 936308506842 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 721 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3065 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1781 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1725 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	43.8% Average	Read 456 Write 31.6 Mixed 129 44% 206 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 2.89 64% 23.6 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 3.46 40% 95.8 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 43.8% Great: 71%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 44GB free Firmware: 5.41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 5097549 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 10213432237682 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1228 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 151 (B1) Unknown 0 0 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 51542491164 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5097549 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5097549 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5097549 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6006 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1519 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1519 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1622	77.6% Very good	Read 509 Write 189 Mixed 258 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 88.1 4K Mixed 22.9 126% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 193 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 62.2 83% 151 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 599GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 1224 (03) Spinup time 92 83 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2360 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 57 38671273288 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 14895 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2225 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 21475164188 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 521404447 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1013 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2511 (C2) HDA temperature 31 48 42949672991 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 5 1224 (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 41790031805145 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4114821896 (F2) Unknown 100 253 491452472	47.4% Average	Read 78.7 Write 86.5 Mixed 92.5 65% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.83 4K Mixed 0.72 122% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2800 C14 4x16GB 110 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 2800 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	106% Outstanding	MC Read 37.3 MC Write 48.6 MC Mixed 38.5 118% 41.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.9 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 19.4 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 69.1 58% 69.1 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 132%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 83%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A WORKSTATION (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	5x
Xeon E5-1650 v3IntelBench 77%, 7,962 samples	4x
Core i7-6950XIntel $499Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	4x
Quadro RTX 4000NvidiaBench 98%, 9,173 samples	3x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	3x

SSD
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	3x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $249Bench 279%, 18,356 samples	2x
MX100 512GBCrucial $200Bench 88%, 31,545 samples	2x

RAM
M391A2K43BB1-CTD 4x16GBSamsungBench 104%, 120 samples	2x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	2x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 79%, 698 samples	2x

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Total price: $654

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