Motherboard Reviews
MSI 970 GAMING Motherboard Review
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Test System and Testing Procedures
| Processor | AMD FX-8320E |
| CPU Cooler |
Enermax LIQMAX 1205 (ECL-LM120S-TTA) |
| Power Supply |
Cooler Master Silent Pro Gold 1200W |
| Memory | Kingston HyperX Beast 2x8GB DDR3 1600 MHz |
| Storage | Kingston Digital 240GB SSDNow V300 |
| Graphics | (2) Gigabyte R9 290 |
| Drivers | 14.501.1003-141120a-177998C, 14.12 AMD Catalyst Omega Software |
| Motherboard(s) | MSI 970 GAMING (MS-7693) BIOS(v22.2),Build Date (20141216) |
| Router | ALLIED TELESYN AT-9924T ADVANCED LAYER 3+ GIGABIT 24-PORT NETWORK SWITCH, Boot (2.6.6-02) Cat6E cables used for network testing. |
| Operating System | Windows 7 x64 Professional SP-1 with latest patches and updates |
Latest working BIOS, updates and drivers were used at the time of the review. Each test was conducted at least three times for accuracy.
System Benchmarks
- wPrime 32M
- Aida64 Engineer 4.30.2900
- CineBench R15
- PCMark 8 v2.0.228
- WinRAR 5.01
Subsystem Testing
- CrystalDisk Mark for SATA and USB tests
- DPC Latency
- Rightmark Audio Analyzer 6.4.0
- Passmark Performance Test 8.0 – Network Speed Graph
- JPerf 2.0.2
- LAN Speed Test 3.4
Gaming Benchmarks
- 3DMark (Firestrike test) v1.2.362 – Default Preset
