MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming Motherboard - The March of the Dragoon Army
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BIOS Utility & Test Setup
BIOS Utility
The UEFI BIOS Utility of the MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming has been given the Dragoon Army makeover to boost the red and black color scheme just like its Click BIOS II software access to the UEFI BIOS. However, in terms of layout and functionality, it is almost identical to that of the MSI Big Bang Z77 MPower.
Building on our observed voltage settings, we have added to the list, the various voltage settings of the Z77A-GD65 Gaming board that we modified in order to maintain its stable overclocked states. There were two ways to go about changing their values in the Windows environment by using the Control Center or the Click BIOS II applications; however, being creatures of habit, for our overclocking efforts with the MSI Z77 MPower, we decided to manually adjust the voltage of the CPU PLL to determine how high we can push the CPU Base Frequency. In the case of this particular board, base frequency values can be adjusted by 10KHz for finer tweaking.
Model | CPU Voltage | DRAM Voltage | Other Voltage Settings |
MSI Z77A-GD65 Gaming | 0.805 to 2.1550V (0.005V steps) |
1.1080 to 2.4655V (0.0015V steps) |
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MSI Z77 MPower | 0.80 to 2.155V (0.005V steps) |
1.1080 to 2.4655V (0.0075V steps) |
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ASRock Z77 Extreme6 |
0.80 to 2.20V |
1.17 to 1.80V (0.005V steps) |
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ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe |
0.80 to 1.99V (0.005V steps) |
1.20 to 1.92V (0.02V steps) |
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Biostar TZ77XE4 |
1.000 V to 1.790V |
1.300 to 2.112V (drop-down menu selection) |
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ECS Z77H2-AX | 1.00 to 1.50V (0.015V steps) |
Voltage Offset:+0 to +0.63 V (0.01V steps) |
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Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H WiFi |
0.80 to 1.90V (0.005V steps) |
1.17 to 1.80V (0.005V steps) |
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MSI Z77A-GD65 | 0.80 to 2.155V (0.005V steps) |
1.10 to 2.10V (0.005V steps) |
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Test Setup
This is the test configuration for our Intel Z77 Express-based motherboard comparisons.
- Intel Core i7-3770K
- 2 x 2GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1600 (CAS 9-9-9-27)
- MSI N460GTX Hawk (ForceWare 285.62)
- Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB SATA 6Gbps hard drive (one single NTFS partition)
- Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit
- Intel INF 9.3.0.1020
Benchmarks
The following benchmarks were used to test the motherboards:
- BAPCo SYSmark 2007 Preview (ver 1.06)
- SPECviewperf 9.0
- Futuremark PCMark 7
- Futuremark 3DMark11 (ver 1.03)
- Far Cry 2
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