AIDA64
AIDA64 Extreme Edition is a streamlined Windows diagnostic and benchmarking software for home users. AIDA64 Extreme Edition provides a wide range of features to assist in overclocking, hardware error diagnosis, stress testing, and sensor monitoring. It has unique capabilities to assess the performance of the processor, system memory, and disk drives. AIDA64 is compatible with all current 32-bit and 64-bit Microsoft Windows operating systems, including Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2.
Like 3DMark11 , the first of our disk tests performed right to the point where we expected and like other MSI boards, overclocking does give a little extra speed, in this case 14MB/s extra.
top quality as always from the kings of bling.
The ‘gaming’ moniker is profoundly overused in products nowadays. As far as I’m concerned, apart from an add-in discreet graphics cards there is no such thing as ‘gaming’ hardware. As for this board, it’s a decent solid board but you can play games using any motherboard. It’s not worth the extra scratch over the regular GD65.
I built 2 PC’s for my two brothers using reg GD65’s and 2500K’s OC’d to
4.8ghz 24/7 zero issues for almost a year now. Coupled with a 670 in
one and a 7950 in the other they are pretty solid gaming machines…