Image Editing, Video Encoding and Multitasking

Real world applications benchmarks such as the ones below are a great way to see the benefits an overclock provides for everyday PC use. Some motherboards respond better than others when overclocking even their CPUs are clocked at the same speeds and in the gaming performance tests we found that the Renaissance was a particularly happy bunny when overclocked.




Overall through overclocking on the MSI we can see a large 15 to 30 percent performance improvement, with the largest benefit seen in image editing.

Power Consumption

Resetting the BIOS to default settings we used the exact same set of hardware in all our tests below (listed in the test setup page), only changing the motherboard in between. The Vista power setting was set to Balanced and Cool'n'Quiet was set to Enabled in order to maximise the potential power saving and work with any motherboard power saving hardware. By testing at the wall power consumption, we know exactly what kind of typical power consumption we'll be paying for.



As we've always found, DrMOS again just works better for MSI, saving several watts more under load and a certainly notable 15W when idle. This is from a board with more hardware and extra chipsets than the Asus M4A79-T Deluxe.