MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard Review

We will outline the performance increases that can be obtained from using the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 motherboard to overclock our system. Our overclocked processor frequency was 4.5GHz and memory speed was 2400MHz.

As a performance comparison, we have included the overclocked results from two other Z97 motherboards. The maximum overclocked configuration achieved with each board was a 4500MHz (45 x 100MHz) processor frequency and 2400MHz CL10 memory speed.

Overclocked performance of the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 is positive. The gaming orientated motherboard manages to achieve top-placed finishes in our overclocked Cinebench and 3DMark tests.

Gaming performance shows no variation between each motherboard using our Bioshock Infinite benchmark.

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