MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

Performance Results


Gaming 122% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	137% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

System	MSI MS-7922
Motherboard	MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '18 at 17:54
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 95 1-Core 138 2-Core 267 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 652 70% 555 Pts	64-Core 670 42% 670 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2800 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Lighting 195 Reflection 207 Parallax 205 159% 202 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 192 Splatting 131 123% 153 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^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 1817 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 370 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 29 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 61 167504248864 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 6800439445 (F7) Unknown 100 100 213478367 (F8) Unknown 100 100 167660968 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1250 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	77.2% Very good	Read 486 Write 285 Mixed 302 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 70.1 4K Mixed 23.1 106% 39.8 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 13.7 60% 134 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31675872 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3593 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6023751 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 612 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 524301 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 45 39210450976 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 54 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12951 (C2) HDA temperature 32 55 -140737488355296 (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 66176856105288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11003884470 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29234094929	93.6% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 157 Mixed 136 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.22 67% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 232GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 12881096 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12925043939 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1705 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 589834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 522059806 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 84 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 47518 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 30064771102 (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 -103087805033416 (F1) Unknown 100 253 32454343216 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48923951367	69.7% Good	Read 124 Write 119 Mixed 127 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.21 65% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 1333 MHz clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 21.4 68% 24 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 26.2 SC Mixed 24.3 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 57.2 70% 57.2 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 73%

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Typical Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) Builds (Compare 2,313 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	970x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	648x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	225x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	370x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	228x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	134x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	154x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	78x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	55x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	210x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GBKingstonBench 60%, 17,012 samples	73x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x

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Total price: $775

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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