MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693)

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 24% Surfboard	Desktop 65% Destroyer	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 60.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	40.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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 (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	MSI MS-7693
Motherboard	MSI 970A SLI Krait Edition (MS-7693) (all builds)
Memory	24.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 0.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151022
Uptime	8 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 10:49
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
AMD FX-6300-$47 261,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% CPU 1, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	60.6% Good	Memory 82.5 1-Core 66.5 2-Core 120 56% 89.5 Pts	4-Core 215 8-Core 282 32% 249 Pts	64-Core 278 17% 278 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 62%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 280X-$500 94,130 User benchmarks, average bench 35% Sapphire(174B 3001) CLim: 1150 MHz, MLim: 1600 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 17.5.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Lighting 52.3 Reflection 34.8 Parallax 64.8 43% 50.7 fps	MRender 33.1 Gravity 51.3 Splatting 43.5 35% 42.6 fps
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 39%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 550GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 7335608 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2637 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8867547 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5409 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 570818590 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 36268 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 12884901918 (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 -125868311575450 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8830967165 (F2) Unknown 100 253 27580386430	81.7% Excellent	Read 145 Write 140 Mixed 141 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.17 63% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 114%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 362GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 183170924 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6429 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 45005944 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16444 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1160 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 141736083492 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 104 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 654966818 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 30064771106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 30 183170924 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 192 10061 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -85577223359071 (F1) Unknown 100 253 559246085 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3690529849	47.1% Average	Read 72.3 Write 91.9 Mixed 79.2 61% 81.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.4 84% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 47.1% Great: 66%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31727884 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3812 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 183757430 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16393 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1859 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3293796246 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 56 655032354 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 30064771106 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 27 31727884 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	46.3% Average	Read 87.9 Write 73.2 Mixed 76.4 60% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.4 102% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 70%
Seagate ST3320613AS 320GB-$30 12,971 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 21GB free Firmware: CC2J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 213471070 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6464 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63251627 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15733 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 690 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 186 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 152 (BE) vendor-specific 68 46 638189600 (C2) HDA temperature 32 54 34359738400 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 33 213471070 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 197 196 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -118167435201809 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1507392826 (F2) Unknown 100 253 597784385	53.8% Above average	Read 93.9 Write 93.6 Mixed 88.3 69% 92 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.83 4K Mixed 0.42 78% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 65%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 8GB 6,342 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 0GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	12.8% Very poor	Read 28.8 Write 11.8 Mixed 16.5 22% 19.1 MB/s	4K Read 5.69 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 1.25 115% 2.82 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 12.8% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 3,744 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 667 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.1% Average	MC Read 16.2 MC Write 12.6 MC Mixed 14.9 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 7.9 SC Mixed 10.8 26% 9.07 GB/s	Latency 76.1 53% 76.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 41.1% Great: 85%

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Gaming 23%

Surfboard

Desktop 68%

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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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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 $184	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