MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

Performance Results


Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 60.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	86.7% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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 9 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.

System	MSI MS-7893
Motherboard	MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893) (all builds)
Memory	2.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150729
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '16 at 02:24
Run Duration	451 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD Phenom II X4 955-$83 41,403 User benchmarks, average bench 51% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Memory 85.8 1-Core 53.3 2-Core 106 53% 81.6 Pts	4-Core 211 8-Core 211 28% 211 Pts	64-Core 211 13% 211 Pts
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 60%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 380-$200 83,027 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.300.1025.1001 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	36% Below average	Lighting 44.9 Reflection 50.5 Parallax 56.3 37% 50.6 fps	MRender 49.9 Gravity 40.3 Splatting 39.3 35% 43.2 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 36% Great: 35%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Sol id State Disk 240GB 298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 186GB free (System drive) Firmware: N111 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 472 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 491 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 100 (A3) Unknown 100 100 4 (A4) Unknown 100 100 36358 (A5) Unknown 100 100 78 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1665 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 160635 (F2) Unknown 100 100 164258 (F5) Unknown 100 100 290864	86.7% Excellent	Read 512 Write 287 Mixed 350 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 34.4 126% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 68.8 94% 173 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 85%
Spcc Sol id State Disk 240GB 298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 145GB free Firmware: SAFM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2511 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 536 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 583 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1179677 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 275 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4083	81.2% Excellent	Read 522 Write 369 Mixed 426 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 13.8 92% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 14.1 75% 172 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 85%
Spcc Sol id State Disk 240GB 298 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 90GB free Firmware: N111 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 96 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 528 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 101 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 20565 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 92 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 944 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 107669 (F2) Unknown 100 100 157556 (F5) Unknown 100 100 164520	86.1% Excellent	Read 501 Write 279 Mixed 354 84% 378 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 81 4K Mixed 34.1 127% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 68.1 94% 172 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 693GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 211128216 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6447 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 140939660 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2746 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 47245361167 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 964 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 72 72 57376 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 85899345952 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 23360327127894 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -97907414284106 (F2) Unknown 100 253 66109882157948	79.1% Very good	Read 152 Write 124 Mixed 118 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.41 110% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 619GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 128934192 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3546 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 204209124 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12114 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2707 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 30065229898 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 504889374 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 929 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 63713 (C2) HDA temperature 30 45 73014444062 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 495 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -73744588463456 (F1) Unknown 100 253 124641936172255 (F2) Unknown 100 253 125374346323442	103% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 176 Mixed 176 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.4 116% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 112%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB 33,521 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 4GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	7.28% Terrible	Read 20.4 Write 3.32 Mixed 4.63 9% 9.46 MB/s	4K Read 4.28 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.95 77% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.28% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 667 MHz clocked @ 533 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	24.3% Poor	MC Read 8.4 MC Write 6.7 MC Mixed 7.2 21% 7.43 GB/s	SC Read 7.2 SC Write 7.2 SC Mixed 6.8 20% 7.07 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 24.3% Great: 62%

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Gaming 34%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 28%

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Motherboard: MSI 990FXA GAMING (MS-7893)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	121x
FX-8370AMD $175Bench 62%, 34,720 samples	43x
FX-9590AMD $298Bench 63%, 26,109 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	7x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	16x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	8x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	6x

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Total price: $358

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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 $40	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