MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	189% 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.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	60.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 30 '16 at 13:09
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Xeon E5-1650 v3 7,962 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 221 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 707 71% 578 Pts	64-Core 953 59% 953 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.6% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 113 Parallax 97.3 88% 106 fps	MRender 85.1 Gravity 91.2 Splatting 87 72% 87.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 423GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8326 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 777 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 73 50 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 159 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3820877233	94.7% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 352 Mixed 358 90% 407 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 83.1 4K Mixed 27.7 149% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 167 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 89.7 98% 162 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 126%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 1,377 Write 817 Mixed 978 234% 1,057 MB/s	4K Read 49.3 4K Write 161 4K Mixed 47.2 220% 85.7 MB/s	DQ Read 585 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 175 194% 338 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 243%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 629GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 165 4541 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1131 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3030 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 839 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 153 153 143807 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 29 (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	63.1% Good	Read 105 Write 115 Mixed 112 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.3 115% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 8x8GB 552 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 8 of 8 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	110% Outstanding	MC Read 42.2 MC Write 43.4 MC Mixed 42.3 122% 42.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 23.7 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 121%

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Gaming 78%

Battleship

Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	319x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	126x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	120x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	82x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	61x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	22x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	28x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	27x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	24x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $639

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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