MSI Z370 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7B46)

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.63% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	257% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	Micro-Star MS-7B46
Motherboard	MSI Z370 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7B46) (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171027
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '17 at 21:31
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-8350K-$139 23,493 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 130 2-Core 260 89% 161 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 497 66% 494 Pts	64-Core 455 28% 455 Pts
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i3) 32,403 User benchmarks, average bench 5% MSI(1462 7B46) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4758 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.63% Terrible	Lighting 7.97 Reflection 11.3 Parallax 7.78 6% 9.01 fps	MRender 11.7 Gravity 6.6 Splatting 16.1 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.63% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 250GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,092 Write 1,435 Mixed 1,297 356% 1,608 MB/s	4K Read 57.7 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 51.2 225% 81.6 MB/s	DQ Read 545 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 172 190% 329 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 254%
Hitachi HDN726060ALE614 6TB 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4.5TB free Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 104 (03) Spinup time 135 135 42982834645 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 16 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 56 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 16 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 180389937193 (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 200 200 0	113% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 195 Mixed 176 143% 190 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 4.32 4K Mixed 0.29 152% 1.86 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 121%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 352GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 184 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 201 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4302560225 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 988 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 83 (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 65 57 605552675 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 204 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 77309411363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 18 184 (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 -32920924323369 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3729548311 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2274511401	45.1% Average	Read 79.8 Write 77.5 Mixed 74.9 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 0.85 4K Mixed 0.66 119% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 75%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 327GB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 78 (03) Spinup time 126 126 51579781731 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 13479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 14262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5473 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 13512 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 13512 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 197569085479 (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 200 200 0	54.9% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 94.6 Mixed 80.2 68% 90.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.23 106% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.2% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 21.6 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 23.3 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 88%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: MSI Z370 KRAIT GAMING (MS-7B46) - $190

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	447x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	196x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	99x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	97x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	83x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	41x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	27x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	47x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	28x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	28x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $996

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 $178	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