Synthetic Benchmarks
3DMark Firestrike
Regarding performance, this motherboard is not mucking about. Straightaway in our first benchmark it set our third highest score to date, scoring 23188 in 3dMark Firestrike at 1080p. Furthermore, it takes home the win while overclocked, hitting a very respectable 23902, our second highest score to date.
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Unigine Superposition 1080p Extreme
Unigine is mostly the same story, with the MSI motherboard setting our second highest score to date, with only the ASUS Z370 motherboard sitting in the lead with its freakishly high and somewhat inexplicable score. Of course, with this being a GPU bound task, once overclocked virtually every motherboard performed about the same.
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PCMark 10 Express
The victories don’t stop there for the MSI SLI plus either, setting the third highest score again PCMark 10 Express, and maintaining one of our highest ever scores once overclocked.
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WPrime 32M and 1024M
The WPrime performance is a very respectable 107.6 83 seconds. Obviously not our fastest time, but keep in mind that this is a six-core processor going up against some of the extreme processor’s benchmarked over the last few months. Overclocking did bring some nice improvements again, taking it to 101.3 seconds, making it one of the quicker Z370 motherboards we’ve tested so far.
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Cinebench R15
The same is true in the Cinebench benchmark, which does favour the higher core count processors. The SLI plus still set a very respectable score of 1544 at stock, and 1641 while overclocked. Of course, the coffee Lake CPUs also have the highest single core performance we’ve ever seen, and that still holds true with this motherboard.
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Handbrake MP4 to MKV Conversion 4K
The handbrake performance was precisely what we expected it to be. It’s on par with all the other Z370 motherboards at stock and overclocked settings.
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this motherbouard Availability the overcloking for CPU!!!!!!
I currently own this board and am running a very high end system:
8700k @4.8ghz
2x16gb ddr4 3600mhz
2x1080ti gaming x trio
This board handles all the additional components than i’m throwing at it flawlessly. My gpu’s are 1.5kg each and there is no sag.
One thing to watch out for, if you are a r/datahoarder like me, you cannot use an m.2 slot without disabling 2 of the 6 SATA connectors.
ram overclocking has become more stable thanks to a bios update, allowing me to overclock my ram to 3600 from 3200, something I wasn’t able to do initially.
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warning on my board at 1.25 volts the vrms overheat even if i am giving them direct air flow with a fan. this is only under a stress test. the soft ware that comes with this board is a bit naff and is more like bloat ware, overall the board is ok and i got it for a killer deal.