MSI X99A Tomahawk Motherboard Review

Overclocking
There are a few different ways to overclock on the X99A Tomahawk. You can go into the Command Center software and select one of the Game Boost modes.

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You can go into the MSI Gaming App and select the OC Mode. Be sure that you have your CPU is selected. This will give you a small overclock.

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Finally you can go into the BIOS and manually overclock. Moving the CPU voltage up to 1.35V and setting our multiplier to 43 we were able to achieve a stable overclock of 4.3 GHz. Now this is where we hit our thermal limit. If we have better cooling I know we could have gone higher.

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