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MSI Z97A Gaming 6 Motherboard Review

Luke Hill June 19, 2015 Featured Tech News, Motherboard

Manual CPU Overclocking:

To test the MSI Z97A Gaming 6 motherboard’s CPU overclocking potential, we first increased the CPU VCore to 1.31V, Cache/Ring voltage to 1.275V, CPU Input Voltage to 1.90V, and PCH voltage to 1.1V. We also disabled SVID, enabled filter PLL and set the cache ratio to 40x.

UEFI-OC-1 UEFI-OC-2

All of the main overclocking settings are found on MSI's dedicated page. This makes adjusting voltages and frequencies a simple task in MSI's UEFI.

4700MHz-OC

The maximum stable overclock that we achieved was our chip's limit of 4.7GHz. The board required 10mV more than our usual 1.30V VCore setting in order to maintain complete stability.

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