MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 125% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	123% 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	234% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 16:37
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (47^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 360 User benchmarks, average bench 75% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 22 cores, 44 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	75.1% Very good	Memory 82.6 1-Core 92.9 2-Core 185 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 704 63% 533 Pts	64-Core 2685 166% 2685 Pts
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (67^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 160 Reflection 199 Parallax 213 131% 190 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 192 Splatting 140 126% 155 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 179GB free Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17055 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3731 (B1) Unknown 91 91 104 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 51 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 847 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67412880687	77.6% Very good	Read 495 Write 332 Mixed 356 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 39.8 4K Mixed 20.9 97% 31 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 70.4 86% 155 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 118%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 156GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	234% Outstanding	Read 2,610 Write 1,313 Mixed 1,412 391% 1,779 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 33.7 126% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 98.3 110% 189 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 234% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 52GB free Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18970 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4413 (B1) Unknown 96 96 41 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 986 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11104201418	77.3% Very good	Read 488 Write 344 Mixed 343 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 39.6 4K Mixed 19.7 95% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 64.2 83% 151 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 108%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 880GB free Firmware: CC41 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 117 99 133898904 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3829 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61062768 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8039 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2070 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163907 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 66 55 588382242 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 459 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24064 (C2) HDA temperature 34 45 51539607586 (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 -57732950386653 (F1) Unknown 100 253 76426190430 (F2) Unknown 100 253 545134006954	65.4% Good	Read 146 Write 81.8 Mixed 110 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.42 105% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 108%
Toshiba MQ01ACF032 320GB-$22 3,858 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 47GB free Firmware: 1E Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1943 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2419 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 16079 (0A) Spinup retry count 147 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1287 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 80 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 157180 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236223594520 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 65 65 14070 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 253 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	46.8% Average	Read 77.8 Write 85.1 Mixed 77.2 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.17 73% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 4x8GB 1,159 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	122% Outstanding	MC Read 51.5 MC Write 51.2 MC Mixed 45.9 142% 49.5 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 15.7 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 75.8 53% 75.8 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 134%

Take a copy of your results How to check your in-game FPS

System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) Builds (Compare 787 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 $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	325x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	111x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	115x
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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x
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

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $744

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