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MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Motherboard Review

We will outline the performance increases that can be obtained from using the MSI Z170A Gaming M7 motherboard to overclock our system. Our overclocked processor frequency was 4.8GHz and memory speed was maintained at 3200MHz.

As a performance comparison, we have included the overclocked results from six other Z170 motherboards. The maximum overclocked configuration achieved with each board was a 4800MHz (48 x 100MHz) processor frequency and memory speed was 3200MHz CL16 where the board supported it (not on the ASRock Z170 Extreme4).

OC Cinebench

OC 3dmark

OC GTA

CPU and Cache overclocking deliver solid performance gains for the MSI Z170A Gaming M7 based system. A very minor frame rate improvement is recorded in GTA V, however the increase in the Cinebench and 3DMark Physics scores is significant.

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6 comments

  1. I have this board with a i7 6700k @ 4.5GHz, Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000MHz (2x8GB), and Samsung 950 Pro M.2, and GTX 980 Ti – and I use Command Center all the time. I notice no performance hit when doing so, and after reading your review tested it on several programs and games. No difference. It’s not really impacting anything I do on my rig, gaming or not. If there is any performance drop it’s so tiny it makes no difference. BTW I really like this board. Been trouble free from day 1.

  2. Bought this last year shortly after the Skylake launch day and its a beast. No issues with performance, BIOS, gaming or software. One of the best motherboards I’ve owned.

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