MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20)

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 99.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	MSI MS-7A20
Motherboard	MSI X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) (all builds)
Memory	22.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160715
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 19 '17 at 02:46
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6900K-$120 6,755 User benchmarks, average bench 86% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 139 2-Core 275 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 550 8-Core 1,016 94% 783 Pts	64-Core 1,402 87% 1,402 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 98%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2527 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	86.8% Excellent	Lighting 120 Reflection 55.2 Parallax 105 98% 93.4 fps	MRender 68.3 Gravity 47.8 Splatting 112 66% 75.9 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 41GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33960 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 427 (B1) Unknown 94 94 64 (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 75 55 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 377 (F1) Unknown 99 99 79778493190	96.1% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 351 Mixed 358 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 76.4 4K Mixed 28.5 145% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 24.8 82% 180 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 126%
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 11GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8814 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 100 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4337631761 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 39 (A8) Unknown 100 100 23 (A9) Unknown 100 100 541 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 80 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 48 206159937568 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1318572654899 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4482 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5100 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4098 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2438 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.6% Excellent	Read 499 Write 307 Mixed 273 79% 360 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 19 121% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 39.2 62% 114 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 104%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 6GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 -64080912020090 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 676 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 590 (B1) Unknown 0 0 11 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 43 1013615099930 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11930 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3960 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3960 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4450
Poor: 50% Great: 81%
Sandisk SD8SN8U256G1122 256GB 2,469 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8860 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 109 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3844371911772 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 57 (A8) Unknown 100 100 55 (A9) Unknown 100 100 607 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 29 (AE) Unknown 100 100 85 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 68 292059349035 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 15775482908249 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7363 (EA) Unknown 100 100 25083 (F1) Unknown 253 253 18391 (F2) Unknown 253 253 18506 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.6% Very good	Read 498 Write 133 Mixed 138 55% 256 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 97.6 4K Mixed 23.7 142% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 40.4 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 52.2 66% 110 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 2800 C16 4x8GB 344 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 4 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	MC Read 55.2 MC Write 61.6 MC Mixed 51.3 160% 56 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 23.1 SC Mixed 23.5 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 52.2 77% 52.2 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 135%

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Typical X99A GAMING PRO CARBON (MS-7A20) Builds (Compare 787 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 88%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 79%

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

CPU
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 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 $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $744

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