MSI X99A RAIDER (MS-7885)

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	78.3% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7885
Motherboard	MSI X99A RAIDER (MS-7885) (all builds)
Memory	4.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150320
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '17 at 20:31
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5820K-$130 101,694 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 97.3 2-Core 183 73% 124 Pts	4-Core 340 8-Core 572 56% 456 Pts	64-Core 755 47% 755 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1394) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.3% Very good	Lighting 100 Reflection 106 Parallax 97.2 82% 101 fps	MRender 89.9 Gravity 93.5 Splatting 82.6 72% 88.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 33GB free Firmware: 60AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11279779 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -39333310493663 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 76 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 14 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 31 60131573791 (C2) HDA temperature 31 31 60131573791 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11279779 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11279779 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11279779 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 85899345920 (E9) Unknown 0 0 506 (EA) Unknown 0 0 184 (F1) Unknown 0 0 184 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1830 (F4) Unknown 100 100 589826	62.9% Good	Read 447 Write 139 Mixed 180 56% 255 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 13.4 116% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.6 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 13.4 28% 54.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 161441960 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 422133613 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11450 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 504954910 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 824 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 47244640286 (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 -15071040230217 (F1) Unknown 100 253 43057466417 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1360228924385	80.4% Excellent	Read 148 Write 133 Mixed 104 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.14 54% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 112%
WD 3200BEV External 320GB 182 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 124GB free, PID null Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	19.1% Very poor	Read 37.1 Write 39.1 Mixed 36.4 49% 37.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.24 66% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM 3000 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (48^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	36.5% Below average	MC Read 14.2 MC Write 10.9 MC Mixed 11.1 34% 12.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.9 SC Write 10.7 SC Mixed 9.9 29% 10.2 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 65%

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Gaming 64%

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Desktop 81%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: MSI X99A RAIDER (MS-7885)

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	397x
Core i7-6800KIntel $103Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	244x
Core i7-6850KIntel $115Bench 84%, 29,279 samples	56x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	104x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	91x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	30x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	18x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x

RAM
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	34x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	23x
HyperX 2400 C15 4x8GBKingstonBench 82%, 9,100 samples	22x

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Total price: $422

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 $46

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