MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	69.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	MSI MS-7922
Motherboard	MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '16 at 21:38
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 251 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 699 74% 592 Pts	64-Core 700 43% 700 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2986) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6200 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Lighting 90 Reflection 92.9 Parallax 80.9 73% 87.9 fps	MRender 82.8 Gravity 79.7 Splatting 72 63% 78.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 256GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1835 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 214 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 68 65 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3649642738	118% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 408 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46.3 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 51.9 190% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 120 142% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 85GB free Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4350619 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 87325275069624 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 544 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 57 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 41 1013614968859 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 1013614968859 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4350619 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4350619 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4350619 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5781 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1954 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1954 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2233	75.7% Very good	Read 511 Write 197 Mixed 222 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 19 123% 51.8 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 42.3 67% 126 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 85%
WD Black 750GB (2008)-$140 11,698 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 358GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 225 221 8750 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9840 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30450 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6218 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 241 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9789 (C2) HDA temperature 116 84 34 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	56.7% Above average	Read 110 Write 87.5 Mixed 95.5 74% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.36 110% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 340GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174847920 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2186 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1109028 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 637 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 63 555286561 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 41845 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 55834574881 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -43134356547663 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7095245753 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8657644321	98% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 166 Mixed 132 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.19 98% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 112%
WD Black 500GB (2008)-$95 28,095 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 203GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 154 5058 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7888 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21873 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7876 (C2) HDA temperature 117 81 30 (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	46.3% Average	Read 85.8 Write 75.2 Mixed 72 58% 77.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.32 95% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905403-152.A00LF 4x2GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 21.4 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) - $127

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	979x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	649x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	226x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	372x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	229x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	134x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	155x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	78x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	212x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 60%, 17,012 samples	74x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x

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Total price: $775

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16