MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC (MS-7882)

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	118% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

System	MSI MS-7882
Motherboard	MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC (MS-7882) (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160719
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	May 05 '18 at 16:44
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 (76^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 104 2-Core 205 77% 133 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 645 65% 527 Pts	64-Core 822 51% 822 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 91%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3607) ≥ 4GB; msi armor OC 1080TI CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	118% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 204 Parallax 189 122% 181 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 184 Splatting 136 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$122 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 18GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18600 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 210 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 69 51 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24966260332	99.4% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 413 Mixed 404 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 36.7 4K Write 76.2 4K Mixed 29.1 133% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 127 144% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 133%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 114428880 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 51 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 79611513848555 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 253 (AB) Unknown 0 0 50 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 258 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 50 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 114428880 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 51 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 114428880 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 114428880 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 43 43 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 41097 (EA) Unknown 0 0 25644 (F1) Unknown 0 0 25644 (F2) Unknown 0 0 40360	58.3% Above average	Read 387 Write 129 Mixed 167 50% 228 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 10 100% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 177 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 39.5 61% 116 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 82%
WD Black 6TB (2016)-$235 6,443 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 5.5TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 104 (03) Spinup time 137 137 42980606436 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 130 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 14 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 15 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 150 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 130 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 136 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 261994315818 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 14 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	122% Outstanding	Read 214 Write 212 Mixed 201 157% 209 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 3.88 4K Mixed 0.48 168% 1.79 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 121%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 474GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 106 5391 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1347 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 49861 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 422 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 280 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 318667 (C2) HDA temperature 111 90 36 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59% Above average	Read 104 Write 102 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.26 4K Mixed 0.22 43% 0.27 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMK16GX4M4A2800C16 CMK8GX4M2B3600C18 CMK16GX4M4A2800C16 CMK8GX4M2B3600C18 16GB 2800, 2800, 2800, 2800 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	66.2% Good	MC Read 28 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 21.6 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 18.6 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns

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Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 77%

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Motherboard: MSI X99S GAMING 9 AC (MS-7882)

CPU
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	10x
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	3x
Core i7-5960XIntel $285Bench 80%, 15,468 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	4x
GTX 980Nvidia $500Bench 59%, 167,107 samples	3x
R9 290XAMD $549Bench 51%, 37,353 samples	2x

SSD
840 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 103%, 68,337 samples	3x
PC SN730 SDBQNTY-256G-1001 256GBWDCBench 164%, 6,246 samples	2x
XP941 PCIe M.2 256GBSamsungBench 133%, 1,434 samples	1x

RAM
+ + 4x4GBUnknownBench 99%, 150 samples	4x
BLS8G4D240FSA.M16FA 2x8GBCrucialBench 67%, 776 samples	2x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GBCorsair $115Bench 88%, 5,380 samples	2x

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Total price: $465

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16