MSI 970 Gaming Review

Written by Antony Leather

August 21, 2014 | 08:24

Tags: #atx #best-amd-motherboard #phenom

Companies: #msi

SATA and M.2 Performance

Website: ATTO Disk Benchmark

We tested the SATA and performance with an OCZ Vector 150 240GB, as this is one of the fastest SSDs we've ever tested, and it can saturate the bandwidth of SATA 6Gbps ports. We usually test the M.2 port using a Plextor PX-G256M6e SSD, but the Maximus VII Formula is only compatible with 2260 (60mm) and smaller M.2 SSDs.

We use ATTO Disk Benchmark, and take the read and write speeds for 1,024KB data chunks.

SATA 6Gbps Performance

ATTO Disk Benchmark

  • MSI Z97M Gaming (Intel Z97 M.2)
  • MSI Z97S SLI Plus (Intel Z97 M.2)
  • Asus Maximus VII Gene (Intel Z97 M.2)
  • MSI 970 Gaming
  • Asus Maximus VII Formula (Intel Z97)
  • Asus Maximus VI Impact (Intel Z87)
  • Asus Maximus VII Gene (Intel Z97)
  • Asus Maximus VII Ranger (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Gaming 7 (Intel Z97)
  • ASRock Fatal1ty Z97 Killer (Intel Z97)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Z97S SLI Plus (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Z97 MPower (Intel Z97)
  • MSI Z97M Gaming (Intel Z97)
  • Asus Maximus VII Hero (Intel Z97)
  • Asus Maximus VII Hero (ASMedia ASM1061)
  • Asus Maximus VII Formula (ASMedia ASM1061)
  • MSI Z97 MPower (ASMedia ASM1061)
  • MSI Gaming 7 (ASMedia ASM1061)
  • MSI Z97S SLI Plus (ASMedia ASM1061)
  • Asus Maximus VII Gene (ASMedia ASM1061)
    • 759
    • 557
    • 758
    • 559
    • 750
    • 559
    • 546
    • 486
    • 545
    • 520
    • 545
    • 520
    • 542
    • 520
    • 544
    • 522
    • 544
    • 520
    • 544
    • 519
    • 544
    • 519
    • 543
    • 520
    • 543
    • 516
    • 542
    • 520
    • 542
    • 517
    • 388
    • 385
    • 387
    • 382
    • 386
    • 381
    • 382
    • 382
    • 381
    • 379
    • 377
    • 376
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MB/sec, higher is better
  • Read
  • Write

Power Consumption

Website: Prime95

To see how much power the motherboard consumes at idle and load and while at stock speeds and when overlcocked, we use Prime95 to stress the CPU to its limits, putting all eight cores of our FX-8150 test CPU under load and allowing the power readout to level off.

Power Consumption (Idle)

Windows Aero enabled

  • MSI 970 Gaming
    • 105
    • 135
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75
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125
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Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Power Consumption (Load)

Windows Aero enabled

  • MSI 970 Gaming
    • 136
    • 484
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200
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500
Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

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