MSI Z87-G43 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

Overclocking

I found that overclocking on the MSI Z87-G43 was a little under what I’ve seen from higher end motherboards – possibly due to a lack of load line stability? I’ve seen our chip reach 4.9/5GHz before and sadly the MSI Z87-G43 only seemed to be capable of 4.7GHz – but that’s still a great overclock and more than most would be able to get. The main thing with Haswell is that your overclocks are largely dictated by the quality of your chip, the variantions between most motherboards are very small. I think the slightly lower OC achieved is because I am not used to MSI’s BIOS style and what options do what, with further tweaking or custom OC profiles getting higher overclocks would be possible. I didn’t really want to go much higher on the voltage side though as 1.375 volts delivers temperatures in the mid 90s, even on a Corsair H100i working its a$$ off.

Overclocked Performance and Power