MSI X99S MPower Motherboard Review

We will outline the performance increases that can be obtained from using the MSI X99S MPower 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 X99 motherboards. The maximum overclocked configuration achieved with each board was a 4.5GHz processor frequency and 2400MHz memory speed.

Positive CPU- and system-related performance is continuing through to the overclocked tests. MSI's X99S MPower manages to (marginally) outperform the Asus and Gigabyte competitors in Cinebench and 3DMark physics tests.

Performance in Bioshock Infinite takes a notable drop from the stock-clocked result of 82.3 FPS. We have noticed deteriorating game performance (albeit very small in most occasions) when overclocking X99-based systems on a few occasions. The differential could be related to PCIe link clocks between the CPU and graphics card.

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