MSI Z77IA-E53 Mini-ITX Motherboard Review

In this review we are going to benchmark the i7-3770K at reference clock speeds and when overclocked to 4.6 GHz. We used an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU cooler for testing.

Test System:

Processor: Intel Core i7-3770K
Motherboard: MSI Z77IA-E53
Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Thermal Paste: Arctic Cooling MX-2
Memory: 4 GB (2x 2GB) Kingston HyperX Genesis 2133 MHz.
Graphics Card: AMD Radeon HD 6950
Power Supply: Corsair GS800
System Drive: Intel 520 Series 240 GB
Monitor: Viewsonic VX2260WM
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit)

Software:

PCMark 7
3DMark 11
SiSoft Sandra 2012 SP3
Cinebench R11.5
CrystalDiskMark
Cyberlink MediaEspresso 6.5
VLC Media Player
Performance Monitor
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Super Pi 1.5 Mod
CPUID Hardware Monitor
CPU-Z
DiRT 3
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