MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 116% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very 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	273% 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	128GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 128GB 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A54
Motherboard	MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54) (all builds)
Memory	119 GB free of 128 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160913
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '18 at 23:59
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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, 20 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 2.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 226 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 893 80% 675 Pts	64-Core 1,508 93% 1,508 Pts
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 189 Parallax 173 137% 177 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 169 Splatting 122 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: P1003B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 22 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5335 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 99 (A0) Unknown 100 100 6 (A1) Unknown 100 100 21 (A3) Unknown 100 100 36 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16862 (A5) Unknown 100 100 104 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 777 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 51 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 49 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 635355 (F2) Unknown 100 100 365853 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1079168	80.5% Excellent	Read 498 Write 392 Mixed 450 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 13.5 4K Write 78.2 4K Mixed 19.8 87% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 73.9 99% 180 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 105%
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$158 331,647 User benchmarks, average bench 297% 833GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	273% Outstanding	Read 2,486 Write 1,826 Mixed 2,163 480% 2,158 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 61 4K Mixed 49.4 158% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 136 142% 237 MB/s
Poor: 214% ↑ This bench: 273% Great: 372%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 307GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11003 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 140 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 67 53 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1312434138	106% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 404 Mixed 419 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 45.7 149% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 121 144% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 134%
HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium 8TB-$94 1,061 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4.5TB free Firmware: A4GNT514 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 104 (03) Spinup time 214 214 38673711428 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1616 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3868 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6185 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6185 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 193274642468 (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 200 200 168	90.2% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 144 Mixed 152 117% 155 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.67 144% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 113%
HGST Ultrastar He8 Helium 8TB-$94 1,061 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4.5TB free Firmware: A4GNT514 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 133 133 106 (03) Spinup time 200 200 38676463941 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1567 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3813 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6070 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6070 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 201864577060 (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	86.3% Excellent	Read 163 Write 138 Mixed 141 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.79 159% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 113%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: ML6OA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 113 (03) Spinup time 135 135 34386215317 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 17248 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 148 148 28 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 55791 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 806 (C0) Power-off retract count 86 86 17256 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 17256 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 210453856289 (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	62.6% Good	Read 106 Write 112 Mixed 109 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.33 92% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 73%
Seagate ST31500541AS 1.5TB 9,968 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110007360 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5746 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 51 99273421123 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 47021 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 617 (B7) Unknown 55 55 45 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 1606343000468 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 65 48 739770403 (C2) HDA temperature 35 52 64424509475 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 21 110007360 (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 105377022651958 (F1) Unknown 100 253 652666118 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1264368462	41.2% Average	Read 84.6 Write 58.8 Mixed 73.1 54% 72.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.45 100% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 56%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 931GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 173 171 4308 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3848 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13087 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 595 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 357 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3492 (C2) HDA temperature 113 92 34 (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	97.8% Outstanding	Read 211 Write 129 Mixed 123 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.51 150% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C14 8x16GB-$1,291 53 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 8 of 8 slots used 128GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	MC Read 58.4 MC Write 54 MC Mixed 47.3 152% 53.2 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 19.5 SC Mixed 22.4 54% 19 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 135%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A TOMAHAWK (MS-7A54)

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	82x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	28x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	47x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	22x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	7x
850 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 110%, 154,399 samples	6x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	6x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	11x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 4x8GBUnknownBench 87%, 1,963 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	6x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $609

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