MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


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 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	86.1% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING 7 (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160411
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '16 at 20:15
Run Duration	473 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	18%

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 i7-5930K-$70 34,039 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 105 2-Core 211 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 387 8-Core 649 63% 518 Pts	64-Core 819 51% 819 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.1% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 78.6 Parallax 78.2 62% 77.7 fps	MRender 77 Gravity 68.6 Splatting 62.5 56% 69.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 236GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 825 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 114 (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 57 49 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2415323764	86.1% Excellent	Read 510 Write 407 Mixed 410 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 25 128% 46 MB/s	DQ Read 38.7 DQ Write 88.2 DQ Mixed 22.9 29% 49.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 134%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 920GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 171 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 68 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 65 (C2) HDA temperature 105 99 38 (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	103% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 172 Mixed 170 133% 176 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.27 134% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 691GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 174 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 67 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 65 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 64 (C2) HDA temperature 104 97 39 (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	90.2% Outstanding	Read 159 Write 155 Mixed 157 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.27 132% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 563GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 174 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 812 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 729 (C2) HDA temperature 102 94 41 (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	82.8% Excellent	Read 143 Write 145 Mixed 129 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.35 138% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 109%
Seagate ST1000LM010-9YH146 1TB 2,987 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 364GB free Firmware: CC9G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 124 99 796101912 (03) Spinup time 95 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4522 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15708570 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20644 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1736 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 262149 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 50 572653602 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 193 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11519 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 12884901922 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 34 796101912 (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 -121397250619594 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2360891424 (F2) Unknown 100 253 534817305	38.6% Below average	Read 70 Write 64.5 Mixed 61.6 49% 65.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.25 57% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 48%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 32GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 14GB free, PID b2b3 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	16.3% Very poor	Read 18.4 Write 19.5 Mixed 15.7 23% 17.9 MB/s	4K Read 5.57 4K Write 2.63 4K Mixed 1.92 176% 3.38 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 16.3% Great: 17%
PNY USB 2.0 FD 32GB 475 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 1GB free, PID 009f Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	5.97% Terrible	Read 25.2 Write 3.21 Mixed 6.98 11% 11.8 MB/s	4K Read 6.79 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.003 25% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.97% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 C18 4x8GB 1,215 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 3500 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.1% Good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 21.8 67% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 19.8 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 137%

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Desktop 80%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 69%

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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 $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	64x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	61x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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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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