Pros: This was my first MSI build and so far I'm pretty impressed with the features on this board. You could probably hard core OC with this board but Im not that geeky. Overall Review: I would buy this board again, I got it at a fantastic price and mail in rebate and have had no issues with this board and BIOS is easy, keep in mind this board is basicly just an upgraded z-87 board. The power/Reset/OC buttons are poorly positioned on the bottom of the board and would have been great at the upper right of the board by the DDR3 slots. If running a X-Fire system it is sad to see the Clear BIOS pins are hiding under your graphics card, OC Genie simply puts the cpu into fulltime turbo and overvolts it way too high, what it wanted to give an i7-4790k was 4.4GHz at 1.28_v Would have liked the mSATA to connect via PCI/E slot rather than the SATA 6 slot, loosing a port isnt the worst deal ever but limits potential of the board. The dual BIOS A/B LED colors seems quite useless in my mind. Power buttons and DE-BUG led's are green and once again do not match asthetics of the board, would have made sence and looked better with red all around. Blue (BIOS A) Green BIOS B) just doesnt fit with the black and red asthetics of the board. This has been running for 90 days straight editing, gaming, light application, no issues. The more tests you can pass the more stable you should be. Intel burn test can be used at stock settings but will also thermal throttle with light to moderate OC'ing, if youve got a fantastic high OC chip which allows low stable volts, you could use this to test max temp but not really necessary.Īida64 is too light to find all imperfections so use aida64 to get close then use OCCT to finalize your OC. 4.7 is good for under 1.3v max 65 Deg max temp (EK waterblock), 4.8GHz just isnt worth going over 1.3v on my chip the performance gain between 4.7 and 4.8 is negligible.ĭont use Prime95, it is not optimized for haswell chips and will simply near instantly overheat haswell to the point of thermal throttling(92c) at STOCK SETTINGS. So leaving on all Intel powersaving settings and only manualy adjusting the multi and cpu voltage, aida64 passed with 4hr 4.7 1.232v but failed occt in 6 min, upping the voltage resulted in a final stable 24/7 OC of 4.7GHz 1.272v (full load CPUID Hardware Monitor) 2400MHz GSKILL Tritan 2x8GB DDR3, occt (8hr) and aida 64 (8 hr) stress test stable (4 hrs is more than enough i just left it going while i went to work) regardless.
Super Charger: Quickly Charge your iPad/iPhone/smartphones even under S0/S1/S3/S4/S5 modeĪdditional Information Date First AvailableĬool looking MSI Dragon Mossfet heatsink(if you can see it in your build) Total Fan Control: Optimize All Fan Speed As You Wish Gaming Device Port: Optimized with Triple Gold-plating for High Polling Rate Gaming Devices Sound Blaster Cinema: Realistic Surround Sound Experience Multi-GPU: NVIDIA SLI & AMD CrossFire Support
PCI Express Gen 3: World's 1st PCI Express Gen 3 Motherboard Brand Military Class 4: Top Quality & StabilityĬlick BIOS 4: Easily Fine-tune Your System Supports 4th Gen Intel Core / Pentium / Celeron processors for LGA 1150 socketĪudio Boost: Reward Your Ears with True Quality * The SATA6 port will be unavailable when a SSD installed in the mSATA port.ģ x USB 2.0 connectors (supports additional 6 USB 2.0 ports)ġ x USB 3.0 connector (supports additional 2 USB 3.0 ports)ħ x V-Check points (7x V-Check connectors) I can show that an EVO can be made to lower temperatures to around 70C with 135W of SANDY BRIDGE thermal power I'm just not sure what the EVO would prove with the Haswell at even LOWER thermal wattage, since it is a processor with 22nm lithography.īut given the stock cooler that comes with the 4790K - yes - the EVO will be better than that - for sure.Learn more about the MSI Z97-GD65 Gaming Model BrandĬore i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium / Celeron (LGA1150)ĭDR3 3000*(*OC)/ 2800*/ 2666*/ 2600*/ 2400*/ 2200*/ 2133*/ 2000*/ 1866*/ 1600/ 1333/ 1066ģ x PCIe 3.0 x16 slots (support x16, x8/x8, x8/x4/x4 modes)Ħ x SATA 6Gb/s ports (SATA1~6), by Intel Z97 Express ChipsetĢ x SATA 6Gb/s ports (SATA7~8), ASMedia ASM1061 Chipset I think that a 212 EVO can be "custom-configured' to give better cooling than an NH-D14 "without custom," but comparing 135W thermal power on a 32nm processor to whatever wattage shown by the 4790K leaves me uncertain. On these Devils Canyon processors, the cores can really peg at higher temperatures than we were used to with earlier processors. I can't understand how you would have a problem with that cooler fitting in that case. We've been posting in another thread about the 212-EVO and some similar coolers. The fans pull air through little side-vents and other crevices of the door. That's right - the front door seems like an obstruction, but I've found this common in a lot of cases.