MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

Performance Results


Gaming 31% Sail boat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 27% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	36.8% 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	80.1% 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	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia 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	17.8 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	5.8 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '18 at 23:58
Run Duration	219 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 76.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 214 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 563 61% 483 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	36.8% Below average	Lighting 47.6 Reflection 46.9 Parallax 41.9 39% 45.5 fps	MRender 39.2 Gravity 43.3 Splatting 38.8 33% 40.4 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 228GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30410 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5997 (B1) Unknown 89 89 123 (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 67 55 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 19 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5820 (F1) Unknown 99 99 146346992568	80.1% Excellent	Read 490 Write 328 Mixed 339 85% 386 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 68 4K Mixed 20.8 121% 42.5 MB/s	DQ Read 40.2 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 71 67% 99 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 126%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 158527256 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3875 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5746570 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21892 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 82 82 19045 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885164300 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 49 840957987 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 369 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11677 (C2) HDA temperature 35 51 90194313251 (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 102409200220942 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19072054265 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41738053683	84.4% Excellent	Read 155 Write 138 Mixed 118 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.4 4K Mixed 0.8 218% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 94%
WD WD80EZZX-11CSGA0 8TB 694 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 3.5TB free Firmware: 83.H0A03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 144 144 17209950665 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 56 (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 100 100 187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 54 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 217 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 217 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 227634708521 (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	80.1% Excellent	Read 143 Write 136 Mixed 139 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.51 128% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 99%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$105 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 679GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 219 198 8008 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3214 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19074 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 372 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 256 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23191 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	66.7% Good	Read 119 Write 113 Mixed 109 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.26 95% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 99%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$105 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 526GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 216 193 8158 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11734 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 18177 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 243 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 208 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 26231 (C2) HDA temperature 119 105 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72.1% Very good	Read 132 Write 119 Mixed 116 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.19 89% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 99%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 451GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 112564024 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6235 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 124741259 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 35720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 62 62 38969 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 28 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 45 673120290 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 23230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33719 (C2) HDA temperature 34 55 85899345954 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1324 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 39131447060207 (F1) Unknown 100 253 57729704990 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44450094138	80.5% Excellent	Read 124 Write 155 Mixed 125 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.51 180% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 1302 1600 CL9 Series 0215 CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9 1302 1600 CL9 Series 24GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	47.5% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 14.8 47% 16.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 15.6 42% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 87.4 46% 87.4 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	968x
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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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