MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693)

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	69.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.5% 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.

Run History

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 0.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160623
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 31 '17 at 22:29
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-8350-$130 313,196 User benchmarks, average bench 61% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	72% Very good	Memory 94.2 1-Core 75 2-Core 151 66% 107 Pts	4-Core 270 8-Core 403 42% 337 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 68%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6769) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2556 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	69.2% Good	Lighting 86.4 Reflection 84.2 Parallax 82.1 70% 84.2 fps	MRender 88.3 Gravity 77.6 Splatting 80.2 67% 82 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 133GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^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 100 100 981 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 742 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 29 (AE) Unknown 100 100 447 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 56 188979675179 (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 4 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8325875630 (F7) Unknown 100 100 262271841 (F8) Unknown 100 100 72014671 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1258 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	67.5% Good	Read 448 Write 298 Mixed 307 78% 351 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 44.7 4K Mixed 21.1 86% 29.8 MB/s	DQ Read 151 DQ Write 80.2 DQ Mixed 40.6 50% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 95%
Seagate ST33000651NS 3TB 6,381 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 1.5TB free Firmware: G009 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 63 237387373 (03) Spinup time 95 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1388 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 5075740208 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 33902 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1249 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 109 (BE) vendor-specific 61 53 656867367 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 650 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2237 (C2) HDA temperature 39 47 68719476775 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 6 237387373 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	73% Very good	Read 133 Write 121 Mixed 124 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.55 132% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ares DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 1,351 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 933 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	50.4% Above average	MC Read 22 MC Write 15.4 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 8.3 SC Mixed 13.4 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 75%

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Typical 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693) Builds (Compare 253 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 23%

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Desktop 68%

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Workstation 19%

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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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Total price: $227

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 $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16