Review: MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC Motherboard

PC Mark and 3D Mark

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC PC Mark 8 Home, Creative, and Adobe

PC Mark is again another extensive benchmarking tool, but also more practical and measures closer to real world performance. Again we can see the MSI board pulling ahead in most tests. While only a slight increase overall. It’s enough to show a difference between the boards with the exact same processor.

MSI Z97 Gaming 9 AC 3D Mark

3Dmark isn’t going to show any real difference between the two boards as it really comes down to the R9 290X we used on both boards. We thought it best to include some graphical benchmarks anyway. The extra overclock barely makes a difference to the results, in fact, the gigabyte scores 8 points higher than the MSI board with a higher OC on the Fire Strike Extreme test. It just goes to show that gaming doesn’t really take advantage of CPU overclocks. At least not with the 4770k.

8. PC Mark and 3D Mark

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