MSI X299 XPOWER GAMING AC (MS-7A91)

Performance Results


Gaming 155% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 164% 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 an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	158% 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	267% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Micro-Star MS-7A91
Motherboard	MSI X299 XPOWER GAMING AC (MS-7A91) (all builds)
Memory	59.9 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170926
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 23:40
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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 i9-7900X-$400 19,432 User benchmarks, average bench 82% CPU0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 20 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	Memory 89.5 1-Core 116 2-Core 304 91% 170 Pts	4-Core 570 8-Core 892 90% 731 Pts	64-Core 2,056 127% 2,056 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6598) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2830 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	158% Outstanding	Lighting 247 Reflection 203 Parallax 206 201% 219 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 172 Splatting 127 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 158% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 166GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	267% Outstanding	Read 1,892 Write 1,581 Mixed 1,596 376% 1,689 MB/s	4K Read 50.6 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 69.8 247% 91.2 MB/s	DQ Read 456 DQ Write 386 DQ Mixed 208 214% 350 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 267% Great: 353%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 176 7683 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1217 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4265 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 356 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 210 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 16127 (C2) HDA temperature 130 110 22 (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	95.8% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 152 Mixed 127 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.21 85% 1 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 195 901 (03) Spinup time 185 174 7708 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1002 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4374 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 225 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17526 (C2) HDA temperature 128 109 24 (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 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.6% Excellent	Read 153 Write 128 Mixed 110 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.22 92% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 29 (03) Spinup time 185 173 7708 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1263 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16301 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 228 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 26538 (C2) HDA temperature 131 97 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	61.6% Good	Read 112 Write 103 Mixed 101 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.19 82% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$79 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 730GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 91088624 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1144 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7997869 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4464 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 375 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 61 588447768 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11903 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 51539607576 (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 50075023707189 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6924975716 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72440681663	81.8% Excellent	Read 172 Write 113 Mixed 151 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.16 57% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 114%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 497GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 176 7608 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1273 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8945 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 373 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 221 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11721 (C2) HDA temperature 131 97 21 (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	76.3% Very good	Read 166 Write 100 Mixed 107 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.28 95% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 87%
WD My Book 25DA 8TB 718 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 3.5TB free, PID 25da Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	25.4% Poor	Read 139 Write 13.2 Mixed 29.6 53% 60.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.24 35% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 25.4% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8x8GB 4,255 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	133% Outstanding	MC Read 42.3 MC Write 77.8 MC Mixed 43.1 155% 54.4 GB/s	SC Read 7.9 SC Write 22.4 SC Mixed 11.3 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 142%

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Gaming 103%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 110%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 XPOWER GAMING AC (MS-7A91)

CPU
Core i9-7900XIntel $400Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	36x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	36x
Core i9-7960XIntel $347Bench 83%, 2,322 samples	10x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	37x
RTX 3080-TiNvidia $660Bench 204%, 155,335 samples	14x
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,148Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	8x

SSD
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $170Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	12x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	7x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $150Bench 241%, 38,097 samples	6x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	24x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	17x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	16x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
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 $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16