MSI 870A Fuzion Power Edition EXCLUSIVE Review
Manual Overclocking
Published: 23rd September 2010 | Source: MSI | Price: £120 Est |
Manual Overclocking - Max Base HTT
This is where we were pleasantly surprised by the 870A Fuzion. Effortlessly, we continued to ramp up its Base HTT frequencies all the way to a blistering 400MHz.
We initially attempted these base HTT's with a low overall CPU Multiplier, but eventually we were able to achieve the same frequency with a multiplier of 10x and a consequent processor frequency of 4000MHz.
Manual Overclocking - Max Northbridge Frequency
We have previously mentioned how important it is to ramp up those NB Frequencies. With our MSI 870A Fuzion board, our X6 1090T saw a maximum frequency of 3000MHz. This is near enough what we expect from our processor sample.
Manual Overclocking - Max Overall Frequency
The above CPU-Z Validation shot says it all really. Tweaked for all its worth, the 870A Fuzion Power Edition pushed our 1090T (on air) to a maximum frequency of 4500MHz. This of course was a suicide run and wasn't quite what could be considered as stable.
With some further refinement, we finally found ourselves with a stable overclock of 4.03GHz as shown below.
This is more or less in line with this particular 1090T's capabilities. With the overclocking now summarised, it's now time to hit the benchmarks.
Most Recent Comments
great looking board....
Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental.
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Originally Posted by El Gappo
When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me |
I have the MSI P55-GD65 and the OC genie button works like Poo
Fantastic as ever guys, and a special thanks to Mul for absolutely kicking the s**t out of it.
Fabulous stuff.
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Originally Posted by El Gappo
When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental. |
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Originally Posted by SiN
Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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Originally Posted by SiN
Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
And yes, I am now a cool kid
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Originally Posted by Delusion77
I guess this board really surprised you guys |
TTl your cpu-z sig is looking much healthier now
Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard?
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Originally Posted by Zeals
What's the best heat sink for this if i want to fill all memory slots, the RAM is 35mm tall. Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard? |
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Originally Posted by Mul
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (16x/16x Dual CrossfireX, SLI, ATi + nVidia)
2 x PCIe 1x 1 x PCI |
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
The Noctua NH14 will clear regular ram. It only has issues with Dominator ram. |
I wasn't aware that loads of companies made oversized tbh. I know Gskill do that Ripjaw stuff.
You do need to run a Physx mod/hack (mod is a nicer word) but yes, you can.
You might need to run that mod for this board, I don't know. Usually Nvidia disables Physx when it sees an ATI card present. And the way it does this is the driver looks at the Device manager and then at the DEV_ID for the graphics cards. If it sees the ATI DEV number (1002 as the vendor code) then it simply disables the Physx function. However, this is easy to get around using GenL Physx Mod 1.04ff.
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