MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95)

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.1% 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	61.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

System	Micro-Star MS-7A95
Motherboard	MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95) (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170602
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 22 '17 at 22:35
Run Duration	252 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7820X-$375 28,524 User benchmarks, average bench 80% CPU0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 83.1 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 91% 168 Pts	4-Core 559 8-Core 1,046 96% 803 Pts	64-Core 1,545 96% 1,545 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2077 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 89% 112 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 102 Splatting 108 86% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 183GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^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 13 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (64) Unknown 100 100 38944 (65) Unknown 100 100 7168 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 11 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1333 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 100 163210199077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 71 (EA) Unknown 100 100 42 (F1) Unknown 100 100 69 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	72% Very good	Read 477 Write 270 Mixed 264 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 55.6 4K Mixed 12.1 91% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 28.1 76% 165 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 88%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3K87RA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^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 100 100 254 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 166 (64) Unknown 100 100 879360 (65) Unknown 100 100 140928 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 14 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 259 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 163210002465 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1589 (EA) Unknown 100 100 824 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1270 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1191 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	61.4% Good	Read 467 Write 254 Mixed 252 71% 324 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 54.4 4K Mixed 10.5 89% 31.9 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 58.5 DQ Mixed 10.3 18% 33.1 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 551GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 158607808 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 734 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 112161814 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4247 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 628 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 20 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 63 538509344 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8603 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 51539607584 (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 -9384503537718 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29624994692 (F2) Unknown 100 253 71553784507	93.1% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 159 Mixed 160 122% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.24 99% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA MQ01ABF050 500GB 552 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 76GB free, PID 0237 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	29.3% Poor	Read 67.3 Write 67.5 Mixed 47.1 76% 60.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 44%
SanDisk Cruzer U 32GB 516 User benchmarks, average bench 9% 26GB free, PID 55a5 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	14.3% Very poor	Read 36.9 Write 10.4 Mixed 18 23% 21.7 MB/s	4K Read 4.33 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 1.04 114% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 14.3% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	61.7% Good	MC Read 19.9 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 18 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 19.7 SC Mixed 11 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 61%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 92%

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Motherboard: MSI X299 GAMING PRO CARBON AC (MS-7A95)

CPU
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	108x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	91x
Core i9-7900XIntel $413Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	57x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	87x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	62x
RTX 2080-TiNvidia $441Bench 156%, 357,946 samples	45x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	20x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	17x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	15x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	133x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	45x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	40x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $796

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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