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MSI X99S Gaming 7 Motherboard Review

Luke Hill September 25, 2014 Featured Tech News, Motherboard

Cinebench

We used the ‘CPU’ test built into Cinebench R15 .

Cinebench

WinRAR

WinRAR’s built in benchmark and hardware test can help us outline the performance differentials between each motherboard. We record the amount of data processed after a 30-second run.

winrar

Handbrake Conversion

We measured the average frame rate achieved for a task of converting a 4.36GB 720P MKV movie to 720P MP4 format.

handbrake

Cinebench shows a benefit of 21 points with the MSI board's 60MHz CPU speed increase. WinRAR also shows a slight improvement with the faster CPU frequency used by MSI's board.

Handbrake, on the other hand, prefers Asus' X99 Deluxe and its 3GHz memory over MSI's X99S Gaming 7 and its slightly faster CPU. With that said, the difference between each board is a little over 1%.

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2 comments

  1. Sam Nicko
    October 16, 2014 at 5:40 am

    I think the best combination to satisfy all my needs specially getting out the juices of M.2 there is two option.

    Option 1 (40 lanes) with Intel Core i7-5930K or Intel Core i7-5960X Extreme Edition:
    2 way SLI (E1_3.0x16+E3_3.0x16) + 1 M.2 (3.0×4) and 1 SSD on SATA Express (2.0×2)

    or

    Option 2 (28 Lanes) with Intel Core i7-5820K:
    3 way SLI (E1_3.0x8+E3_3.0x8+E5_3.0x8) + 1 M.2 (3.0×4) and 1 SSD on SATA Express (2.0×2)

    ^_^ Great review Luke.

  2. Lorant Tamas
    November 21, 2014 at 10:27 pm

    Hi there. I saw you review to late.
    I have the same issue, can’t make the RAM to run on 3000MHZ with a 5820k.
    Have you found any solution? Already contacted manufacturers(Kingston/MSI/Intel)…still no luck, so maybe you can help.
    Thanks, and nice review btw.

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