Overclocked Performance Summary

I have really changed how I do my overclock testing with motherboards. Every single test you see in the main section is repeated in the section that follows, including power consumption. As I test more products, a good picture of overclocking efficiency should emerge, which should prove interesting when it comes to those products that are 100% overclocking-oriented. I have grouped the results into sections here, and all Intel products are tested with 4.6 GHz CPU speed. Memory speeds vary depending on the platform's ability. I'll report it here if a board fails to pass one of these tests, I need to increase voltages, or am perhaps allowed to drop voltages.


Overclocking with the MSI Z87-G45 GAMING was really easy. I simple set my clocks and voltages in the BIOS that is very nearly the exact same as that of the MSI Z87-GD65 GAMING. Memory overclocking remained similar as well but power consumption was considerably higher. That said, the ease of getting it all set up was just as expected: without any hiccups.

AIDA64

CPU OC Performance

3D-Oriented OC Performance

3DMark06 and 3DMark Vantage

3DMark11 and PCMark 07

3DMark

Metro: Last Light

Sniper Elite V2

Shogun 2

F1 2010