MSI Z170A SLI Plus Motherboard Review

Overclocking
Overclocking on the Z170A SLI Plus can be done in a few different ways. The first would be with the OC Genie. This can be enabled either in the BIOS or in the Command Center Software. It is a quick instant overclock for those who have never overclocked before.

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With OC Genie enabled our system was brought up to 4.4 GHz.

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Now if you wanted to stay in Windows you could use the Command Center software to fine-tune your system. Although I personally prefer the BIOS.

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Going into the BIOS I set our multiplier to 47 and upped the CPU voltage to 1.35V and was able to achieve a stable overclock of 4.7 GHz. While the system did boot at 4.8 GHz it was not stable.

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