MSI Z68A GD65 G3 Review

3D Mark Vantage

Even thought PCI Gen 3 GPUs are still on the horizon rather than an actuality, the extra bandwidth might be useful to current cards. MSI have made big claims about their Gen3 Switches, so let’s see if they do anything. Vantage at least remains nip and tuck between the two Gen3 motherboards.

3D Mark 11

Wow. Now here is a turn up for the books. 1000 point increase in P score and 240 X points is nothing to be sniffed at. Especially when the only variable between the systems is the motherboard itself. It’s results like this that demonstrate why we’re so committed to only changing the single piece of hardware that is being tested between runs.