MSI Z170A Gaming M5 Motherboard Review

Overclocking
Overclocking on this motherboard can be done in a few different ways. The first way is to use MSI’s gaming app or the Game Boost feature in the BIOS.

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You can also manually overclock using the Command Center software.

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Finally of course you can fine-tune things manually in the BIOS. Because of our limited time with this board (less than a week), we were not able to really get into Skylake overclocking as much as we would have liked. Expect a follow up article on that specifically. Using the same process we did with Haswell we were able to bring our Core i7-6700K up from 4.0 GHz to 4.7 GHz. This was achieved by simply setting the multiplier to 47 and changing our CPU core voltage to 1.4V. This is a 100% stable overclock as it passed all of our benchmark tests as well as a stress and temperature test.

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