Performance

As a whole we are changing the way we look at our motherboard testing slightly. The truth is a lot of the standard benchmarks you see in our reviews as well as others aren’t really needed. These tests actually test components like the CPU and video card more than anything else. Because of that we have trimmed down our testing slightly to make it easier for you to take in. We still do some testing though to make sure none of the boards that we test have any glaring issues but overall you should only see a slight variation in numbers. That variation isn’t a big deal; it is only the big variances that we are looking for. Having cleared that up, I would also like to point out that testing like our Audio and storage testing still are important as they are sub systems that the motherboard manufactures have control over, be sure to check out those sections as well.

Once you get over the fact that our table currently looks like a Cincinnati Bengals ad you can see that the MSI Z87-G45 Gaming doesn’t have anything that is noticeably off in its performance. Once we have more motherboard results to compare it to you will be able to see that more (we are publishing another review after this one today, if you are interested check the results on that one to compare).