MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


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 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 94%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	66.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160914
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 14 '17 at 23:33
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	5%

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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 Core i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 131 2-Core 261 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 808 79% 649 Pts	64-Core 1,036 64% 1,036 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371D) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2040 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	66.4% Good	Lighting 84.2 Reflection 81.4 Parallax 80.9 69% 82.1 fps	MRender 75.6 Gravity 76.6 Splatting 75.4 62% 75.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow KC400 512GB-$180 2,804 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 411GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM001B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^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 0 (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 100 100 3429 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 602 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 718 (AD) Unknown 100 100 917555 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 392 (C2) HDA temperature 65 61 167504969763 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6347 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5116 (F2) Unknown 100 100 13280 (F4) Unknown 100 100 14 (F5) Unknown 100 100 51 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1923712	79.7% Very good	Read 522 Write 420 Mixed 303 92% 415 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 10.1 98% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 66.6 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 15.5 44% 89.5 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 108%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 856GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 225972280 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6726 (05) Reallocated sector count 39 39 2504 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 50945878 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3357 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4296540203 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 64 46 622657572 (C2) HDA temperature 36 54 64424509476 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 9 225972280 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 120 7605 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 11974368863179 (F1) Unknown 100 253 826945372 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3592777421	55.6% Above average	Read 114 Write 79.6 Mixed 94.6 72% 96.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.5 108% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 69%
Seagate ST500DM005 HD502HJ 500GB 10,272 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 52GB free Firmware: 1AJ1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5411 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1215 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9866 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1324 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 401 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 61 167504707619 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 36 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11188	48.3% Average	Read 87.1 Write 81 Mixed 105 69% 91.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.26 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.24 69% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 77%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 26GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 792 (03) Spinup time 195 182 6208 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2237 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 27619 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1883 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 773 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 59416 (C2) HDA temperature 108 98 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 24875 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	40.8% Average	Read 78.1 Write 64.2 Mixed 69.2 53% 70.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.2 55% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 59%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 10GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 206629105 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8865 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 181 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 8617658799 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 47078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4335 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032835 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 39 7817547153448 (C2) HDA temperature 40 61 68719476776 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 17 206629105 (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 -129523328692314 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2563376353 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3530408753	35.3% Below average	Read 59.4 Write 63.2 Mixed 61.1 46% 61.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.45 107% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 35.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 2,787 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	MC Read 40.3 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 29.5 97% 33.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 24.3 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 103%

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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	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 $94Bench 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

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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