Overclock

Because the CPU plays an important role in total overclocking, we take a difference approach and put our motherboards built in automatic overclock to the test. In the case of both the Asus Z87-Pro and the Z87-Plus I used Asus AISuite III, the 4 way optimization tab will automatically overclock your CPU. This is the best software option I have seen because the software slowly bumps up the multiplier until the board crashes. After it reboots it starts back up again and takes the multiplier back down to the last known good setting and then it starts to increase the base clock up, testing after each change. Just like with the multiplier, it will turn the clock down slightly once it reaches its breaking point.

On both Asus boards we reached the same result, a result that was much higher than the MSI board tested. I feel this is because the software tests and re-overclocks over and over while the MSI board didn’t seem to go through as much trouble.