System Overview & Testing Procedures
We will be running the MSI MEG X570 Ace Motherboard in the following setup.
Test System Specs
Processors: AMD Ryzen 9 3900X
Motherboard: MSI MEG X570 Ace
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce RTX 2060 Gaming OC Pro 6G
Memory: 16GB G.SKILL Trident Z Royal 3600 MHz
Storage: Crucial MX 300 750GB
Cooling: Noctua NH-U12A
Power Supply: Corsair AX860i
Case: PrimoChill Praxis WetBench
For motherboard testing we will running the processor and motherboard and the default optimized settings in the BIOS (as if you would restore the defaults on the board). We feel that this is how most users will have their systems configured. So everything will be on auto, except for setting our XMP profile for our memory. Here are the tests we’ll be running.
We will also be comparing the MSI MEG X570 Ace Motherboard to the following motherboards…
– ASRock X570 Taichi
– Gigabyte X570 AORUS Master
Overall System Testing
PCMark 10
PCMark 8
– Home Benchmark
– Work Benchmark
– Creative Benchmark
CPU Testing
SiSoftware Sandra
– Processor Arithmetic
– Processor Multi-Media
CINEBENCH R20
x264 HD Benchmark 5.0
Graphics Testing
3DMark
– Time Spy Benchmark
– Fire Strike Benchmark
– Fire Strike Extreme Benchmark
– Fire Strike Ultra Benchmark
SATA, USB, Network & Power Testing
CrystalDiskMark
LAN Speed Test
Kill-A-Watt Meter
