MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	103% 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	65.9% 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 8 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, 5 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 15:35
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 84.8 1-Core 107 2-Core 207 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 646 63% 519 Pts	64-Core 806 50% 806 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (56^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	103% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 160 Parallax 139 103% 142 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 144 Splatting 116 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370 128GB-$74 4,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1547 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1272 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 32 (A3) Unknown 100 100 37 (A4) Unknown 100 100 177020 (A5) Unknown 100 100 223 (A6) Unknown 100 100 122 (A7) Unknown 100 100 176 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 95 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 902 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 355 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 446463 (F2) Unknown 100 100 179003 (F5) Unknown 100 100 708080	65.9% Good	Read 507 Write 148 Mixed 208 62% 288 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 86.8 4K Mixed 18 109% 43.8 MB/s	DQ Read 83.3 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 56.6 57% 89.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$34 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 931GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4865144 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 20 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 3803 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 20 (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 70 69 505282590 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 103079215134 (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 -100489349824512 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3665854 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4017712	99.9% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 169 Mixed 97.7 110% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.25 100% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 562GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29475096 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1448 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 50511026 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1263 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 57 538902560 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 61 61 78383 (C2) HDA temperature 32 43 51539607584 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 24197845750436 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22046168051 (F2) Unknown 100 253 186055849720	79.1% Very good	Read 148 Write 128 Mixed 26.4 73% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.23 77% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GB-$115 5,380 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2800 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68% Good	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 21.6 MC Mixed 22.4 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 19.8 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 111%

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Gaming 47%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 42%

Speed boat

Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 7 (MS-7885) - $289

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	446x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	87x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	56x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	50x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
TS512GSSD230S 512GBTranscendBench 92%, 2,577 samples	11x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	17x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	13x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GBCorsair $210Bench 88%, 3,970 samples	12x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	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) $34	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