Motherboards
MSI Z87 MPOWER (Z87) Motherboard Review
PCMark 7
PCMark 7 provides a set of 7 suites for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy. Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark Suite. The Lightweight Suite measures the capabilities of entry level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the full PCMark suite. Common use performance is measured by the Entertainment, Creativity and Productivity scenario suites. Component performance is measured by the Computation and Storage hardware suites. The Storage suite is ideal for testing SSDs and external hard drives in addition to the system drive.
A BMW owner eh? It looks like you’re not terribly fussy Andy. Lol. Jokes aside, I quite like the looks of this board and I never noticed the VRM heatsink was in the shape of a M. I wonder if it was done on purpose or just a coincidence. I’ll have to assume the former.
I see another batch of mobo’s have arrived at the offices for testing, this one being among them but I won’t be testing any of them. I’ll ship them off to the junior hacks for evaluation.
Would like to see what can be done with an ASUS Maximus VI Gene, but that 5.0 ghz is impressive even if that voltage is pushing it a bit.
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Great board by MSI.. I’m really impressed by the design as well as the performance.
Do you guys even proof read?
Test system
Asus Z77-A
Intel i7-3770k?!?
And 5 Ghz windows stable on just 1.385 Vcore? Uh, no. What was your ring frequency and voltage?