MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming (Z77) Motherboard Review
Chris Hadley / 12 years ago
Cinebench R11.5
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Marking the Gaming board against the other top MSI’s boards that I’ve seen, this board performs at the same level as the MPower with a score of 7.14, just a little bit more than the straight GD65.
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.
Within SuperPI, a time of 9 minutes 23 seconds wasn’t the best result that has been seen at stock, however overclocking the board saw a huge improvement in time with well over two minutes taken off, only 10 seconds off the fastest we have seen from any overclocked Z77 board.
