MSI X299 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B05)

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	104% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B05
Motherboard	MSI X299 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B05) (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170627
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 23 '17 at 19:24
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7740X-$281 5,094 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 137 2-Core 251 92% 162 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 672 70% 562 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 96%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.9% Good	Lighting 82.2 Reflection 80.8 Parallax 77.5 67% 80.2 fps	MRender 72.1 Gravity 74 Splatting 75.3 61% 73.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: 4B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 39 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 25 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 58 52 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 923171945	104% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 480 Mixed 478 110% 492 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 30.2 169% 64.9 MB/s	DQ Read 43.6 DQ Write 130 DQ Mixed 30.9 40% 68.1 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 124%
OCZ Agility 3 120GB-$102 38,562 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 70GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 79 4220036 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -69106023781294 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3232 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 110 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4220036 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4220036 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4220036 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9226 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6429 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6429 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13784	50.8% Above average	Read 189 Write 102 Mixed 115 30% 135 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 11.5 112% 48.2 MB/s	DQ Read 137 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 27.8 46% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 61%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$90 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 607GB free Firmware: 0A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 170 5925 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2038 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5370 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1740 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 215 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9212 (C2) HDA temperature 119 101 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	45.3% Average	Read 78.2 Write 79.3 Mixed 81.3 60% 79.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.28 102% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 88%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 380GB free Firmware: 0K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 238 5700 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6675 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4829 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 449 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6659 (C2) HDA temperature 113 93 37 (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 200 181 406 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53% Above average	Read 101 Write 84 Mixed 89.2 69% 91.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.2 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.29 57% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 37 MC Mixed 27.4 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 28.7 84% 29.3 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 105%

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Gaming 98%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 92%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 TOMAHAWK (MS-7B05)

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	45x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	45x
Core i7-7740XIntel $281Bench 87%, 5,094 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	22x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	15x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	12x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	10x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	8x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	38x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	30x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	16x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $859

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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