MSI Z97 Gaming 5 Motherboard Review

Cinebench

We used the ‘CPU’ test built into Cinebench R15 64-bit.

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.

Handbrake Conversion

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

CPU-heavy test results show the MSI Z97 Gaming 5 to be delivering competitive performance.

In our set 30-second WinRAR benchmark period, MSI's motherboard managed to convert an incrementally higher amount of data than competing Asus and Gigabyte boards.

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