Review: MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard

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MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Processor Arithmetic

Sandra has amazing benchmarks for extensive tests. Above are the arithmetic tests and we can see the MSI board is again pulling ahead over the Gigabyte.

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Processor MultiMedia

Both Stock/Auto and XMP results are ahead on the MSI board yet again. We are already see a clear winner with regards to performance, even without changing any settings. Basically the same CPU will perform better in the better board. Simple!

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Cryptography

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Processor Multi-Core Efficiency

Here we finally see the Gigabyte board have slight lead over the MSI with Stock and XMP settings. However, the MSI board quickly regains leader ship with the better OC.

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Cache Bandwitdh

Memory tests are nearly identical here as expected. The MSI board does offer better performance with the higher OC.

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Sandra Memory Bandwitdh

 

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