MSI Z170A TOMAHAWK (LGA1151) Motherboard Review
John Williamson / 8 years ago
Networking Performance
Passmark Performance Test 8 – Ethernet
Sadly, the motherboard’s network interface struggled in both TCP and UDP testing. The results are underwhelming, and I re-ran the benchmarks numerous times to see if a background application was impacting on the network speeds. Despite my best efforts, I couldn’t get the speeds to increase by a substantial amount.
Passmark Performance Test 8 – CPU Work Load
On a more positive note, the CPU utilisation figures were pretty good and fell in the range I expected.
