MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	77.6% 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	72.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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-7922
Motherboard	MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) (all builds)
Memory	2.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150529
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 17:22
Run Duration	440 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 96 1-Core 113 2-Core 225 83% 145 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 436 51% 395 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 87%

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: 1494 MHz, MLim: 1770 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (49^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.6% Very good	Lighting 99.8 Reflection 106 Parallax 97.7 81% 101 fps	MRender 88.8 Gravity 91.6 Splatting 79.7 70% 86.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Z400s 128GB-$109 10,807 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 88GB free Firmware: Z2320000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 158 100 926 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 867 (A6) Unknown 100 100 541 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 589 (A9) Unknown 100 100 216 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 627 (AE) Unknown 100 100 188 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 100 257698037807 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5721 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 58093 (F1) Unknown 253 253 33156 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13642	66.3% Good	Read 469 Write 178 Mixed 203 62% 283 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 3.94 105% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 26 62% 128 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 71%
Plextor M6e PCIe 128GB-$93 664 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^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 100 100 734 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (B1) Unknown 100 100 97921 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 80 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 326997 (F2) Unknown 100 100 102333	72.7% Very good	Read 279 Write 306 Mixed 215 60% 267 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 36.7 119% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 185 DQ Write 65.5 DQ Mixed 82.1 72% 111 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: CC4G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 228393496 (03) Spinup time 98 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12476 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 651202748 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23349 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 8 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4570 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 317832429733 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 591 (BE) vendor-specific 55 44 22230925357 (C2) HDA temperature 45 56 38654705709 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 25 228393496 (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 27689654180557 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1619543943 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1411207481	57.4% Above average	Read 96.7 Write 103 Mixed 22.5 54% 74.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.46 100% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 70%
WD WD5000AZLX-00K4KA0 500GB 44,506 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 465GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 171 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4991 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3210 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 580 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4410 (C2) HDA temperature 109 96 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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	87.6% Excellent	Read 149 Write 156 Mixed 82.5 96% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.78 4K Mixed 0.28 114% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 104%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 297GB free Firmware: CP100-13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5888 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12728 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 19 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 16719 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5281 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 225776 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 65536 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BE) vendor-specific 61 52 39 (C2) HDA temperature 118 94 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 225776 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 19 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 618	43.1% Average	Read 71.4 Write 78.6 Mixed 42.4 48% 64.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.4 94% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 43%
USB DISK 2.0 8GB 3,226 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 6GB free, PID 4100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	4.84% Terrible	Read 19.4 Write 3.45 Mixed 4.82 9% 9.24 MB/s	4K Read 5.31 4K Write 0.006 4K Mixed 0.008 20% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.84% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x4GB 3,657 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	64.8% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 20.6 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 19.8 SC Mixed 14.9 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 83%

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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	975x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	648x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	226x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	371x
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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	78x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	211x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 60%, 17,012 samples	74x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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