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MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming Motherboard Review

Henry Butt April 17, 2013 Featured Announcement, Motherboard

In this review we are going to test the MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming with an Intel Core i7-3770K processor at both stock and overclocked speeds.  The overclocked results were achieved at 4.8 GHz using the settings detailed in the previous section.

Test System:

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K
Motherboard: MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming
Cooler: Phanteks PH-TC14PE
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-4
Memory: 16 GB Mushkin Blackline 1600 MHz
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 7950
Power Supply: Silverstone Platinum 1000W
System Drive: Kingston HyperX 3K 240 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Software:

PCMark 7
3DMark
3DMark 11
3DMark Vantage
SiSoft Sandra 2013
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.7
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT Showdown
Battlefield 3
Call of Duty: Black Ops 2

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3 comments

  1. Union Jack
    April 17, 2013 at 9:32 am

    Awesome, great photos too Henry, really enjoyed that read. ordering one today as I am not moving to haswell this generation.

  2. Hank
    April 17, 2013 at 9:33 am

    Well that is a beautiful design, I love the dragon engraved into the heatsink. excellent power delivery potential. Price point is quite competitive, considering the big foot networking adds a lot of the cost.

  3. Felix English
    April 17, 2013 at 9:35 am

    MSI bioses are solid, I always buy them. I am waiting on haswell and their high end board for the 4770k.

    Good product though, just at the end of a life cycle which might stop sales a little. Haswell is due in a few months.

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