MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 60.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	39% 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	37.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	16.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 0.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151208
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Apr 02 '17 at 00:34
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8320E-$87 33,199 User benchmarks, average bench 58% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Memory 83.3 1-Core 62.7 2-Core 124 56% 90 Pts	4-Core 210 8-Core 348 34% 279 Pts	64-Core 347 22% 347 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 65%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	39% Below average	Lighting 51.5 Reflection 46.8 Parallax 46.2 42% 48.2 fps	MRender 40.2 Gravity 43.9 Splatting 38.1 33% 40.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 100 240GB-$95 9,561 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10356 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 370 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 194 194 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 205 (C2) HDA temperature 58 40 257698627626	37.7% Below average	Read 480 Write 10.7 Mixed 200 49% 230 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 27.6 4K Mixed 5.72 49% 17.1 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 53.9 DQ Mixed 33.4 39% 69.4 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 83%
Hitachi HMS5C4040ALE640 4TB 1,439 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 583GB free Firmware: MPAOA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 100 (03) Spinup time 128 128 42985390624 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5206 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 111 111 43 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10174 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 243 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5264 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 206159085605 (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	70.5% Very good	Read 129 Write 117 Mixed 122 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.17 71% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 72%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 576GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 219 219 34366488997 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5248 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 99 99 65536 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15034 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 262 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5264 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 214749020199 (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	66.5% Good	Read 118 Write 114 Mixed 114 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.22 104% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 107%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 456GB free Firmware: JKAOA28A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 105 (03) Spinup time 117 117 51579912808 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2892 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 40 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1602 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3250 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3250 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 352187973673 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 603	52% Above average	Read 94.4 Write 86.8 Mixed 90.4 68% 90.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.39 89% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 65GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32764272 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5983 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 12902622765 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 47992 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 498 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 17180131335 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 61 24 5914910130215 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 327 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6113 (C2) HDA temperature 39 76 42949672999 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 6 32764272 (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 66434554149548 (F1) Unknown 100 253 684838093 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4199888196	47.7% Average	Read 95.9 Write 70.4 Mixed 97.4 67% 87.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.4 90% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 75%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 3TB 1,602 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 593GB free, PID d011 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	Read 131 Write 133 Mixed 92.2 150% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown IMT451U6MFR8C-P90 Micron 16KTF1G64AZ-1G6P1 IMT451U6MFR8C-P90 Micron 16KTF1G64AZ-1G6P1 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 800, 800, 800, 800 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	46.1% Average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.7 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 8 SC Mixed 11.4 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 74.7 54% 74.7 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 47%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 68%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 19%

Surfboard

Motherboard: MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693)

CPU
FX-8350AMD $130Bench 61%, 313,196 samples	105x
FX-6300AMD $47Bench 55%, 261,607 samples	38x
FX-8320AMD $129Bench 59%, 106,454 samples	29x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	21x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	15x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	9x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	9x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	19x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	6x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $227

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16