MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21)

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	92.3% 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	78% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7A21
Motherboard	MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21) (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160616
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 13 '17 at 18:56
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	29%

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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 i7-6800K-$103 50,196 User benchmarks, average bench 81% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.45 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 206 79% 136 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 666 65% 533 Pts	64-Core 834 52% 834 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92.3% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 124 Parallax 111 97% 118 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 109 Splatting 94 82% 101 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 32GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 112 58340868 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -78692390782362 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3713 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 157 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 1009320198169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 58340868 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 58340868 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 58340868 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12224 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12044 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12044 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19344	78.7% Very good	Read 494 Write 219 Mixed 300 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 86.4 4K Mixed 19.4 117% 45.4 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 75.2 106% 198 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 91%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4035 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 586 (B1) Unknown 48 48 262 (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 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 75452516557	78% Very good	Read 485 Write 269 Mixed 273 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 47.8 4K Mixed 25.4 111% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 65.7 85% 156 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 114%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 100 21346336 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 120 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 78876 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 151 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (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 71 58 521469981 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 275 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 85899345949 (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 -24983824760772 (F1) Unknown 100 253 385003639 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9044248	111% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 195 Mixed 148 133% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.35 4K Mixed 0.84 225% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSE.16FBR 2x8GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.6% Good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 20.5 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 18 46% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 78%

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Gaming 81%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 72%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A XPOWER GAMING TITANIUM (MS-7A21)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	24x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	24x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	20x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	9x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	9x

SSD
MX300 SATA M.2 275GBCrucial $42Bench 80%, 16,792 samples	6x
980 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 2TBSamsung $168Bench 416%, 138,083 samples	4x
WDBRPG0010BNC-WRSN 1TBBench 285%, 20,671 samples	4x

RAM
Aegis DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 79%, 1,332 samples	5x
Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 8x4GBG.SKILLBench 104%, 24 samples	4x
HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBKingstonBench 89%, 6,294 samples	4x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $571

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