MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922)

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	76.1% 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	60.9% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7922
Motherboard	MSI Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160216
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 20:42
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 90.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 260 89% 161 Pts	4-Core 493 8-Core 662 73% 578 Pts	64-Core 664 41% 664 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.4% 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: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.1% Very good	Lighting 98.1 Reflection 103 Parallax 104 80% 102 fps	MRender 88.6 Gravity 91.4 Splatting 75 69% 85 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 64 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8638228	103% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 402 Mixed 415 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 41.7 155% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 126 130% 212 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z2201000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 100 567 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 664 (A6) Unknown 100 100 22 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 118 (A9) Unknown 100 100 203 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 107 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 100 201863462946 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 17377 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9242 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5192	60.9% Good	Read 478 Write 321 Mixed 383 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 74.4 4K Mixed 3.81 75% 32.8 MB/s	DQ Read 15.1 DQ Write 61.2 DQ Mixed 3.46 13% 26.6 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 106%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 10GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13914 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1976 (E8) Unknown 100 100 6148433150 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	94.3% Outstanding	Read 420 Write 381 Mixed 398 89% 399 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 32 132% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 18.2 96% 218 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 869GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 28816791 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6212 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20732808 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11658 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2638 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 327688 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 572522530 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 60129542178 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 19 28816791 (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 122436632729865 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2011911267 (F2) Unknown 100 253 412927060	58.7% Above average	Read 104 Write 101 Mixed 111 80% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.4 98% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR3 2133 2OZ 2x8GB 1,609 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	57.9% Above average	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 16.6 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 18.8 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 79%

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Typical Z97S SLI Krait Edition (MS-7922) Builds (Compare 2,319 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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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 $273	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