MSI Z270 GAMING PRO Carbon Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅03-01-17
Test Setup & Overclocking

Test Setup
CPU Intel Core i7-7700K
Cooling Corsair H100i GTX
Motherboard MSI Z270 GAMING PRO Carbon
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz
Graphics GIGABYTE GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
Storage Corsair Force LX 512GB
PSU Corsair HX1050 80 Plus Gold Certified PSU

Monitor AOC U2879VF
Capture Device Epiphan AV.iO 4K

Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA – CPU & Memory benchmarks
POV-RAY – CPU benchmarks
TrueCrypt – CPU benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks & Memory
PCMark 8 – Home Suite & Photoshop
3DMark FireStrike – 3D Benchmark
Games – Civilization IV & Total War: WARHAMMER


Other Software
Temperature Analysis: Real Temp
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z


Overclocking

Like previous generations, the Intel Core i7-7700K (Kabylake) is unlocked and also has flexible attributes in terms of the BCLK and ratio/multiplier. This makes the job of overclocking much easier.

Our current milestone is 4.9GHz with the Intel Core i7-7700K – GAMING PRO Carbon wasn’t able to achieve this result this clock speed with any amount of voltage but it did manage to reach 4.8GHz. So we nudged the voltage down as far as it would allow and our MSI board allowed a 4.8GHz @ just 1.3v which is a commendable result indeed.



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