MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard Review

3DMark

We used 3DMark‘s ‘Fire Strike’ benchmark which is designed to be used on gaming PCs. We opted for the Normal setting, NOT the Extreme mode.

Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra Memory Bandwidth

MSI's Z97 Gaming 5 delivers a solid set of system-related test results. The Z97 Gaming 5's performance in the game-simulating 3DMark benchmark is marginally higher than that of the comparison boards.

As is the case with Gigabyte's Z97X-UD5H-BK, MSI's Z97 Gaming 5 can't quite compete with Asus in terms of memory bandwidth performance.

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