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MSI Z170A SLI Plus Motherboard Review

Luke Hill April 8, 2016 Highlights-new, Motherboard

Cinebench

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

cinebench

Handbrake Conversion

We measured the average frame rate achieved for a task of converting a 1.23GB 1080P game recording using the High Profile setting and MP4 container.

handbrake

7-Zip

We manually archive a 1.23GB MP4 game recording to test the performance in 7-Zip.

7-zip

Performance groupings are very tight in our trio of CPU-heavy benchmarks. MSI's Z170A SLI Plus sits in joint-bottom position in Cinebench, likely due to its minor CPU Cache frequency reduction versus many competing boards.

Our Handbrake and 7-Zip tests sit MSI's offering amongst the majority of other Z170 options, with no glaring performance issues being highlighted.

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