System Overview & Testing Procedures
We have a specific set of benchmarks and testing programs for testing out motherboards. Just to remind you again here are the specs for our test system.
Intel Core i5-2500K Processor
MSI P67A-GD55 Motherboard
8GB Patriot Viper Xtreme Division 2 DDR3-1866 Memory
Sapphire Radeon HD 6850 1GB Video Card
Thermaltake Toughpower 1200W power supply
Western Digital 1TB SATA 6GB/s hard drive
ASUS Blu-ray drive
Thermaltake FRIO CPU Cooler
Cooler Master CM 690 II Advanced Case
We will be testing the Core i5-2500K at its stock speed of 3.3GHz and then again at the max overclock of 4.5GHz. We have our benchmarks divided into 4 different categories.
CPU Testing
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Processor Arithmetic Benchmark
– Processor Multimedia Benchmark
AIDA64 Extreme Edition (download)
– CPU Queen
– CPU PhotoWorxx
– CPU ZLib
– CPU AES
– CPU Hash
System & Memory Testing
PCMark Vantage (download)
Super Pi (download)
SiSoftware Sandra (download)
– Memory Bandwidth Benchmark
– Memory Latency Benchmark
– Cache & Memory Benchmark
– Physical Disks Benchmark
Video Testing
3DMark 11 (download)
3DMark Vantage (download)
Heaven Demo 2.1 (download)
Stone Giant (download)
Gaming Testing
Alien vs. Predator (Buy)
DiRT 2 (Buy)
HAWX 2 (Buy)
Crysis Warhead (Buy)
I would appreciate a quick answer; so I just bought this motherboard and an Intel i5 3570k Ivy Bridge processor. Are they compatible?
Hi Eric
According to: http://event.msi.com/mb/22nm/
Yes, they are compatible. You will need to update your BIOS to version 4.0.
Hope this helps. If you want speedier responses in the future, please post on the forums! There’s always someone around to help.