MSI Z97A Gaming 6 LGA 1150 Motherboard Review
Rikki Wright / 9 years ago
The Test System and Test Software
Before we delve into any testing we would like to take this opportunity to review our test system.
Test System
- Motherboard varies by review
- CPU: Intel Core i7 5960X
- GPU: Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X graphics card
- RAM: Crucial 32GB 2133MHz DDR4
- Cooling: Thermaltake Water 3.0 AIO with Gelid GC-Extreme
- Case: Lian Li T80 Test Bench
- Storage Drives: Main storage: Crucial M550 512GB, Test Devices: SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB SSD, Plextor 256GB M6e M.2 SSD and Patriot SuperSonic Magnum 256GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive
- PSU: Be Quiet Power Zone 1000W
- Operating System: Windows 8.1 64-bit
- Networking: ASUS RT-AC68U router
Test Software
- SiSoft Sandra Engineer – available here
- WPrime – available here
- Cinebench – available here
- 3DMark – available here
- Bioshock Infinite – available here
- Tomb Raider – available here
- AIDA 64 Engineer – available here
- Latencymon – available here
- Rightmark Audio Analyser – available here
- LAN Speed Test Lite – available here
- Passmark – available here
All tests are conducted three times and the average taken to use in our charts.
