MSI Z77 MPower (Z77) Motherboard Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
Cinebench R11.5
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Comparing the board at stock, we find a very strong result present with this being the thirst best Z77 board we’ve tested at stock CPU speeds.
Super PI
Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.
Super PI again gave a top three result for the board in the Z77 category at stock with a time of nine minutes seventeen seconds. Overclocking the board saw this time drop by over two minutes.
