[section_title title=”Overclocking”]Overclocking
The X99S MPOWER is designed for overclocking as we have mentioned time and time again, don’t let this put you off though if you are not a master overclocker. MSI have made sure that as this board is designed with overclocking in mind to make sure novices stand a chance at obtaining great overclocks as well. Thanks to the OC GENIE button users can literally just push a button to achieve an overclock to their CPU.
Using the OC GENIE button is ridiculously easy and it is so fast in achieving its overclock that you will hardly notice it did anything. On my testing, it gave me an overclock of .5GHz boosting my 5820K from 3.3GHZ up to 3.8GHz. While this may not be the best overclock in the world for the 2 seconds it took to achieve it’s quite nice. It’s also worth noting that that the voltage is also nice and low which will, of course, help keep things cool and also lets us know there is quite a bit of headroom for achieving further overclocks.
After my play with the OC GENIE button, it was time to jump into the good stuff. There are so many options to go through that at first it can be a bit overwhelming if you are not used to it. While I am normally just fine at achieving decent overclocks, I am far from a professional and it did take me some time to go through all of the options and while I didn’t change half of them, still had to have a look.
I knew my 5820K was capable of achieving 4.3GHz at around 1.25v so this is where I started off, if the MPOWER could handle this we would have had some serious issues as this board is designed for overclocking. Everything went smoothly and shortly after booting up I went to head back into the BIOS and see what I could get! To start with I upped the multiplier to 44 and while I could boot into windows it was not stable at all. From here I went back into the BIOS and start to increase the voltage by .01 at a time, after a few times of doing this I managed to find my happy place where 4,4GHz was stable at 1.310v.
I tried for 4.5GHz, but it was never full stable, even at 1.35V which is where I called it quits. I could get it to boot into windows and surf but when it came time to bench it, it was having none of it and would end up blue screening on me. Either way 4.4GHz is the highest overclock I have been able to obtain on my personal 5820k.
For users interested in seeing the overclock options that are available in the BIOS I have included a few screens below that pertain directly to this.
