MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 107% 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	113% 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	231% 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.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	25.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 15:54
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 i7-6950X-$499 6,135 User benchmarks, average bench 87% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 10 cores, 10 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 125 2-Core 248 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 993 88% 745 Pts	64-Core 1,228 76% 1,228 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 125% 145 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 139 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 124GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6833 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1154 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 96 96 3763 (EB) Unknown 99 99 257 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15501249327	111% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 415 Mixed 418 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 44.2 4K Write 82.3 4K Mixed 47.4 171% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 128 134% 224 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	231% Outstanding	Read 1,969 Write 1,406 Mixed 1,146 333% 1,507 MB/s	4K Read 52.5 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 41.9 185% 63.9 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 165 DQ Mixed 115 119% 199 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 231% Great: 254%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 133 133 34387984816 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 836 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 318 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 836 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 836 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 201863462949 (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
Poor: 56% Great: 108%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 66 (03) Spinup time 130 130 34388509111 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2350 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 674 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2644 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2644 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 197568561188 (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 8
Poor: 56% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 66GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160079032 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3688 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 131491577 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8522 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1199 (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 66 51 571736098 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19314 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 34 (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 -134505490802983 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20225473951 (F2) Unknown 100 253 353201808299	68.4% Good	Read 120 Write 118 Mixed 143 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 6 6 6 4x8GB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	139% Outstanding	MC Read 57.3 MC Write 61 MC Mixed 47.7 158% 55.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 20.8 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 58.9 68% 58.9 ns
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 139% Great: 138%

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Gaming 88%

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Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) - $223

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	325x
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	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 $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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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $769

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