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MSI Z77A-GD65 Motherboard Preview - Intel Z77 w/ Sandy Bridge

Manufacturer: Micro-Star International
Product: MSI Z77A-GD65
Date: Sun, Mar 04, 2012 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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SiSoftware Sandra 2012 sp2 Memory Bandwidth

Sisoftware Sandra 2011 SP5

The Sisoft Sandra 2011 SP5 benchmark utility just came out a few weeks ago and we have started to include it in our benchmarking. Sandra 2011 comes with support for Virtualisation (Virtual PC/Server, Hyper-V, VMware) and GPGPU (OpenCL, DirectX 11 DirectCompute), but today we will be using the program to look at memory and CPU performance!

MSI Big Bang XPower II Intel X79 Sandra 2012 SP1 Memory Benchmark Scores

Benchmark Results: The MSI Z77A-GD65 managed to eek past the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro in the SiSoftware Sandra 2012 Sp2 memory bandwidth test. We only talking about a difference of ~.05 GB/s across either of the tests. The MSI Z77A-GD65 averaged 21.251GB/s in the Float memory bandwidth tests and 21.242GB/s in the Integer memory bandwidth tests, the ASUS P8Z68-V Pro averaged 21.209GB/s on both of the tests.

Next Page - 3DMark 11 DirectX 11 Benchmark


Review Index
Page 1 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard
Page 2 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Retail Packaging
Page 3 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard UEFI BIOS
Page 5 - The Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoftware Sandra 2012 sp2 Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - 3DMark 11 DirectX 11 Benchmark
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 RC4
Page 9 - Cinebench R11.5
Page 10 - wPrime
Page 11 - Batman: Arkham City
Page 12 - DiRT3
Page 13 - Intel Z77 SATA III 6Gbps Performance
Page 14 - Intel Z77 SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Performance
Page 15 - System Power Consumption
Page 16 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Overclocking
Page 17 - MSI Z77A-GD65 'Ivy Bridge' Motherboard Overclocked Benchmark Results
Page 18 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion