MSI Z170A Xpower Gaming Titanium Edition Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1151 by petervandamned @ 2016-02-16

Today the MSI Z170A Xpower Gaming Titanium Edition has arrived, looking astonishing in this new PCB coating.

All the new features like dual M.2, USB 3.1 gen 1, USB 3.1 gen 2, Nahimic audio enhancer and a game boost knob plus separate OC panel. Wow this is one bad boy!

 

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Overclocking

Okay this can be fun now. With a few simple steps MSI gives us overclock options. You have seen the first one with the turnable knob.

Second will be what I am using: BIOS settings.

Third I can't show as I didn't got one but it is the OC-Panel.

MSI also has a option called Hotkey overclocking with your keyboard.

And you can overclock with software like MSI's Command Center:

Or with XTU:

But i prefer overclocking from the BIOS, and i will show here some settings; keep in mind I will am not establishing any records here! Just playing a bit with the settings. 

Let's hit that DEL button and play.

I want to get to 5000MHz like we did with the OC-Knob, but with higher Uncore and higher memory.

Manually I am setting the core and Uncore (ring ratio) to 50 and 49. Disabled the Game Boost OC Explore mode on expert. Disable EIST C-state etc.

Raising the CPU Core voltage to 1.475 and DRAM voltage to 1.5 resulting in:

Time to compare with the standard settings. 

 

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