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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Test Results Standard

Straight out of the box settings, besides the EIST disabled. Let find some tests to do and compare later.

All at standard settings:

Starting with a custom setting on Prime 95, leaving it running for one hour.

Not really a problem at all.

Next i am testing a XTU benchmark:

Scoring a 1194 Marks but those temps can't be right? Okay it's on watercooling in a room at 15 degrees Celsius, so this have to be wrong.

Let's see what Cinebench produces on standard settings.

First we start with version 11.5

This gives a score of 10.27.

Version R15 on the test now.

941 points here.

As we here at Madshrimps loving HWbot, i will be testing Aquamark, even though my Titan X will be the big player here.

Score of the CPU is what I want to check, it's 33165 for now.

We carry on with several 3Dmark tests. But like with Aquamark we only look at the CPU scores. With 3dmark we can disable all other tests! if you have a registered version of the benchmark.

3dm11 

3DMark Vantage 

3DMark Firestrike

3DMark Skydiver

3DMark Cloudgate

3DMark Icestorm

Time for some PI counting.

Super PI 1m 

Super PI 32m

Wprime 32M and 1024M

I really like the next benchmark however is made by and for another player in the motherboards scene.

Realbench

Total score of 72410.

time for read and write tests on the memory

Aida64 read

Aida64 write

In the end i want to show you the power of a M.2 SSD write speeds seems to be of. 

Anvil

At the end a small overview with:

HWMonitor

Time to have some fun and OC the heck out of this CPU. Will be on water though and not LN2. Time is not my friend here in this review. Next time i promise!

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