MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Review

Written by Harry Butler

July 22, 2013 | 08:38

Tags: #g45 #z87

Companies: #haswell #msi

SATA Performance

Website: ATTO Disk Benchmark

We tested the SATA and performance with an OCZ Vector 128GB, as this is one of the fastest SSDs we've ever tested, and it can test the maximum speed of SATA 3Gbps and SATA 6Gbps ports.

We use ATTO Disk Benchmark, and take the read and write speeds for 1,024KB data chunks.

SATA 6Gbps Performance

ATTO Disk Benchmark

  • Asus Maximus VI Hero (Intel Z87)
  • MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
  • Asus Maximus VI Extreme (Intel Z87)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H
  • Intel DZ87KLT-75K (Intel Z87)
  • Asus Maximus VI Hero ASMedia ASM1061
  • Asus Maximus VI Extreme (ASM1061 controller)
  • Intel DZ87KLT-75K (Marvel 88SE9172 controller)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H (Marvel 88SE9172 controller)
    • 543
    • 517
    • 543
    • 521
    • 535
    • 511
    • 534
    • 508
    • 533
    • 510
    • 395
    • 381
    • 395
    • 376
    • 394
    • 381
    • 371
    • 243
0
100
200
300
400
500
600
MB/sec, higher is better
  • Read
  • Write


Power Consumption
Website: Prime95

To see how much power the motherboard consumed at idle and load and while at stock speeds and when overlcocked, we used Prime95 to stress the CPU to its limits, putting all eight cores of our Core i7-4770K test CPU under load and allowing the power readout to level off.

Power Consumption (Idle)

Windows Aero enabled

  • Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
  • Asus Maximus VI Hero (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Asus Maximus VI Extreme (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel DZ87KLT-75K (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
    • 60
    • 88
    • 74
    • 93
    • 83
    • 90
    • 87
    • 98
    • 91
    • 100
0
25
50
75
100
Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Power Consumption (Load)

Windows Aero enabled

  • Asus Maximus VI Extreme (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel DZ87KLT-75K (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
  • MSI Z87-G45 Gaming
  • Asus Maximus VI Hero (3.5GHz/4.7GHz)
    • 125
    • 187
    • 132
    • 171
    • 133
    • 205
    • 137
    • 185
    • 142
    • 193
0
50
100
150
200
Watts, lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

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