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MSI Z97 XPOWER AC Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by leeghoofd @ 2014-09-26

MSI continues to update their range of Overclocking motherboards with each new major chipset release. When Intel released their brand new socket 1150 Z97 chipset MSI was ready with another three motherboards targeted at the OC crowd. The affordable Z97 MPOWER exists in two versions: the Z97 MPOWER and the Z97 MPOWER MAX AC and the ultimate flagship of all LGA1150 motherboards must be the Z97 XPOWER AC. The latter being the one and only Z97 based motherboard supporting out of the box 4-way SLI GPU setups. The included accessories are too numerous to list, most interesting for overclockers will be the inclusion of the Delid guard and the OC Fan stand. Time to unravel MSI's latest OC addition...

3D Results

By popular demand we updated the 3D tests with more recent game titles. Hence why initially the charts will look kind of empty till we receive more OC boards in the office. We retested the ASRock Z87 OC Formula board and will keep that immaculate Z87 as a reference board.

Included are two outputs for the Z97boards:

Stock results with the i7-4770K at Intel specs and the Vengeance Pro 2400C10 kit
OC'ed results with the i7-4770K@4500MHz and the tweaked CORSAIR Dominator Plats@2800C11-13-13-31

Note: Due to the onboard PLX chipset the Graphics card was inserted according MSI instructions in the 2nd PCIe X16 slot for maximum single GPU performance.

First up two synthetic titles: Futuremark 3D11 (as it is a lot dependent on well dialed-in BIOS) and the freeware Resident Evil 6 Benchmark.

Not much to see here as the boards perform almost identical

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