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 Overclocking Mode

I will do same test as I did in the non-overclocked session. Starting with the overclock screen at 5000 MHz.

Starting with a custom setting on Prime 95.

Unfortunally Prime did crash.

XTU benchmark

Gaining 77 more? That's not what i was expecting? As i have reached 1600+ with previous runs?

Let's see if the Cinebench runs will do better, keep in mind I am not searching for records here just reviewing!

Cinebench R11.5

Going from 10.27 to 12.19

Cinebench R15

Going from 941 to 1109

Aquamark

On the CPU going from 33165 to 36582

3DMark during tests: 

 

3DMark 2011

Going from 11840 to 12927

3DMark Vantage

Going from 33649 to 39445

3DMark Firestrike

Going from 13154 to 15467

3DMark Skydiver

Going from 12651 to 14561

3DMark Cloudgate

Going from 9456 to 11120

3DMark Icestorm

Going from 56971 to 66903

 

Time for some PI benchmark sessions:

Super PI 1m

Going from 8.733 seconds to 7.266 sec

Super PI 32m

Going from 7 min 31.128 sec to 6 min 22.150

Wprime 32M and 1024M

Going in the speed test from 5.337 sec to 4.596 sec and in the Stability test from 154.957 to 129.758 sec

Realbench

Going from 72410 to 87168

Aida64 read

Going from 48434 to 50228

Aida64 write

Going from 50702 to 52771

Anvil

I wasn't expecting on the M.2 ssd test result but it went from 3606.42 to 3971.00  

HW Monitor

Lets see if we can boost this even a little bit more on the same Core Voltages

5100 core 5100 uncore

5200 core

In the end we can say the MSI did boost my 6700K a lot. 

Next part in the review i will be using this set-up in more real-life situations. In my case this mean hooking my F1 simulator to it and play with it. 

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