Overclocking and Conclusion
Overclocking:
To make sure our clock results were stable we ran 8M runs at each bootable baseclock. We ended up raising the baseclock from 133 to 200. We raised the Vcore with 0.15V. In the end we were able to raise the cpu from its stock 2,9GHz to 4,4GHz. The overclocking was superb, we had no stability issues and with better gear I am sure this board can do way more.
Unpacking:
Conclusion:
This board comes with alot of stuff, it has pretty much everything you need right now with loads of accessories and features. But it also comes with a pretty hefty price tag. We have seen in the tests though that the Asus board performs a bit better at most tests and it is quite a bit cheaper than this Trinergy board. I am in no way saying that the MSI board is bad, since it performs very well and is rock stable even when we overclocked. Our overclocking results show that this board got some nice OC features and functions and I am sure you can get even higher with the right equipment and cooling with a board like this.
Overall it performed quite well, was rock stable and it did not dissapoint us at all in any way even though it was outperformed by the Asus board. The only major con I can see with this board is the pricetag of about 350$ which very few of us can afford.
Pros:
+ Stable
+ X-Fi soundcard
+ Good accessories
+ Very nice features
Cons:
- Price!
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