MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 112% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	135% 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	149% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '17 at 09:13
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 2.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 230 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 759 74% 609 Pts	64-Core 959 59% 959 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 190 Reflection 212 Parallax 209 155% 204 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 182 Splatting 130 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 262GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	149% Outstanding	Read 774 Write 655 Mixed 747 162% 725 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 148 4K Mixed 45.3 194% 77.1 MB/s	DQ Read 654 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 220 217% 358 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 283%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 93GB free Firmware: R131 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3390 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1396 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 47 (A9) Unknown 100 100 404 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 448 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 137 588411043863 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 23 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1998 (F1) Unknown 253 253 942 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1169 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	110% Outstanding	Read 456 Write 485 Mixed 418 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 30.4 161% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 21.8 96% 218 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 109%
Kingston SSDNow V Series 128GB 329 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 11GB free Firmware: B090522a Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5463 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 100 0 (E5) Unknown 100 0 21959003199384 (E8) Unknown 100 48 9011683733561 (E9) Unknown 100 0 1627328264 (EA) Unknown 100 0 438254501385 (EB) Unknown 100 0 1544072319	18.1% Very poor	Read 117 Write 88.2 Mixed 68.4 20% 91.1 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 1.27 30% 7.05 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 19%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151254320 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1693 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1230388 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4040 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1309 (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 71 44 64912949277 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11408 (C2) HDA temperature 29 56 21474836509 (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 77622943943175 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16918031243 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9741421906	65.3% Good	Read 120 Write 107 Mixed 79.9 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 597GB free Firmware: CC52 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 119 99 231923384 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 17238 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1261730 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4546 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2045 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 68720525328 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 80 49 8943566868 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 139 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 39 39 122184 (C2) HDA temperature 20 51 -140737488355308 (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 20959440406848 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18768970190 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12838798801	64.7% Good	Read 106 Write 120 Mixed 23.3 60% 83 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.16 58% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 410GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 180531634 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 494 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4078115 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -79517024517685 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 209 (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 56 404226072 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 81 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1558 (C2) HDA temperature 24 44 38654705688 (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 109659105001808 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7151927195 (F2) Unknown 100 253 168749083	94.3% Outstanding	Read 153 Write 176 Mixed 145 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.29 100% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 105%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 306GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219962928 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2809 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2459600 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4644 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1658 (B7) Unknown 1 1 116 (B8) Unknown 1 1 114 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 3982 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 51 387186711 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 257 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14244 (C2) HDA temperature 23 49 21474836503 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 179 2791 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -39771397158093 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21785742140 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19690004402	63.4% Good	Read 109 Write 112 Mixed 113 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.22 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 69GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 83656832 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1375 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1429780 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2688 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 962 (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 72 55 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9334 (C2) HDA temperature 28 45 17179869212 (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 50736448668890 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13438806082 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9205028414	71.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 115 Mixed 18.8 65% 89.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 3,531 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3200 MHz clocked @ 3008 MHz Performing below potential (95^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	129% Outstanding	MC Read 50.3 MC Write 50.3 MC Mixed 49.9 143% 50.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 25.4 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 129%

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Gaming 123%

UFO

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 108%

UFO

Motherboard: MSI X99A MPOWER (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	44x
Core i7-6950XIntel $499Bench 87%, 6,135 samples	18x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	10x

GPU
RTX 3070-TiNvidia $499Bench 158%, 218,061 samples	9x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	7x

SSD
Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBWDBench 168%, 15,006 samples	9x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	4x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	4x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 4x16GBUnknownBench 90%, 3,173 samples	4x
+ + 4x8GBUnknownBench 109%, 462 samples	4x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	4x

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Value: 79% - Very good

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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