MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	111% 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	235% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '17 at 01:43
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel 0000 197 User benchmarks, average bench 68% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 18 cores, 36 threads Base clock 2.2 GHz, turbo 2.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Memory 60.9 1-Core 85.4 2-Core 169 59% 105 Pts	4-Core 347 8-Core 694 61% 520 Pts	64-Core 1,883 117% 1,883 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 74%

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: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	111% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 181 Parallax 192 113% 170 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 172 Splatting 131 116% 143 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 258GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	235% Outstanding	Read 2,591 Write 1,363 Mixed 1,463 397% 1,806 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 50.7 4K Mixed 34.4 124% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 92.3 102% 173 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 235% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 197GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13046 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2943 (B1) Unknown 91 91 102 (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 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 713 (F1) Unknown 99 99 66268639572	78.5% Very good	Read 492 Write 278 Mixed 355 83% 375 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 47.9 4K Mixed 23.4 110% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 84.9 94% 162 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 118%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 188GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1561 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 317 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 72 57 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14313243146	109% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 498 Mixed 505 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 71.7 4K Mixed 45.7 152% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 255 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 120 123% 200 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 52GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q 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 97 97 14956 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3625 (B1) Unknown 96 96 40 (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 99 852 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10318312094	77.7% Very good	Read 492 Write 281 Mixed 341 82% 371 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 48.2 4K Mixed 21.2 108% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 254 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 67 86% 158 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 108%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 142670176 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2251 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 29673255 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4079 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1282 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295163907 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 605224991 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 380 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12349 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 51539607583 (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 36837934501042 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37267554489 (F2) Unknown 100 253 81436869811	75% Very good	Read 199 Write 61.2 Mixed 89.3 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.89 4K Write 4.36 4K Mixed 3.98 602% 3.41 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 108%

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 (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 46.2 MC Write 39.7 MC Mixed 49.5 129% 45.1 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 11.9 32% 11.3 GB/s	Latency 125 32% 125 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%

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Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

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Workstation 79%

Battleship

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

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	326x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	179x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	173x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	116x
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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $614

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16