MSI Z77A-GD65 (Z77) Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
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Looking at how well the SATA III bandwidth was, we see the GD65 giving similar results to the other boards in our tests. The overclock did manage to push the speed up by around 10MB/s and almost maxing out our SSD in terms of speed.