MSI 990FXA GAMING Motherboard Review

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Technical Specifications

• CPU: AMD FX-8370e @ 3.3GHz (OC – 4.5GHz)
• CPU Cooler: NZXT Kraken X61 
• GPU: ASUS GTX 770 2GB
• Motherboard: MSI 990FXA Gaming
• RAM: Kingston HyperX Beast (2x4GB) Dual channel @ 2400MHz CL11
• PSU: Corsair AX760
• OS: Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

All benchmarks are done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit that is fully up-to-date with Windows Updates to ensure that the performance reflects a real-world scenario and not that of a tweaked benchmarking system. Every benchmark runs for a total of three times and then an average is taken of those results.

2D Benchmarks:

• AIDA64 – CPU Queen/CPU Photoworxx/CPU AES/Memory Read, Write, Copy & Latency
• Cinebench 15 – CPU & Open GL
• PCMark 7 – System Suite
• SiSandra – Processor Arithmetic/Processor Multi-Media/Processor Multi-Core Efficiency/Memory Bandwidth/Cache Bandwidth

3D Benchmarks:

• 3DMark Fire Strike – Normal & Extreme presets

Gaming Benchmarks:

All gaming benchmarks were run at a resolution of 1080P

• BioShock Infinite
• Tomb Raider