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MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard Review

Luke Hill July 28, 2014 Highlights-new, Motherboard

We will outline the performance increases that can be obtained from using the MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC motherboard to overclock our system. Our overclocked processor frequency was 4.7GHz and memory speed was 2400MHz.

As a performance comparison, we have included the overclocked results from four other Z97 motherboards. The maximum overclocked configuration achieved with each board was a 4700MHz (47 x 100MHz) processor frequency and 2400MHz CL10 memory speed.

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MSI's motherboard makes solid gains with the 300MHz overclock applied. Cinebench and 3DMark scores fair well with the boosted CPU frequency, although Bioshock Infinite's GPU-heavy workload doesn't benefit from the faster processor speed.

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