Although the topic of overclocking is not very hot now, there will still be many people who will choose products that can be overclocked when installing the machine. There is a saying that "I can not use it, but you can't do it without it". Whether it is memory overclocking or CPU overclocking, its playability is still very large. For hardware brands, overclocking is a very good selling point, which can enhance the added value of the product, so that the product can be sold more expensive. For players, overclocking is a very good toss point, which can not only improve the performance of the console, but also enjoy the fun of tossing.
The twelfth generation of Core processors has been on the market for a while, when the CPU listed for the first time was all with K, and the host was also able to surpass the Z690, which shows that the topic of overclocking is still enduring. For civilian users, there is no need to think about breaking the world overclocking record every day, and there is no need to invest more money to upgrade overclocking equipment. Enjoying the fun of XiaoChao is the most important thing. As the saying goes, small super pleasant, big super hurt. For ordinary civilian users, Xiaochao is the most suitable. So choose a motherboard for overclocking, and fit it.
One: Motherboard unboxed display
MSI MPG Z690 EDGE TI WIFI DDR4 Blade Titanium Motherboard is a very practical motherboard suitable for overclocking. Due to the current price of DDR5 memory is too expensive, the motherboard that supports DDR4 memory is the first choice for installation in the past two or three years. This motherboard can be said to be one of the most practical Z690 motherboards at present, and on the back of the box, it is printed with its featured introduction.
The characteristics of this motherboard are divided into three categories, namely performance, fashion and heat dissipation. Among them, in terms of performance, the 16+1+1 phase direct chain power supply design is adopted, and the 75A intelligent power supply is adopted. Supports LIGHTNING GEN 5 with up to 128GB/s bandwidth and is compatible with PCI-E 4.0 devices. Supports the new generation of USB3.2 Gen2x2 interface with a peak bandwidth of 20Gbps. A 2.5G wired network is used, which is 2.5 times the bandwidth of a standard gigabit network. Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 are supported. Supports 5th Generation Esports Audio Components. In terms of fashion, it supports MYSTIC LIGHT glare system and one-touch light effect switch. In terms of heat dissipation, an extended heat sink is used, with heat pipes, additional inductive thermal gaskets, and high-efficiency thermal gaskets. Designed with M.2 refrigerator armor, it supports intelligent heat dissipation, can detect CPU and graphics card temperature, and intelligently adjusts the fan speed.
The accessories for this motherboard are very rich, in addition to a large number of paper accessories, there are many practical accessories. For example, Wi-Fi gain antenna, SATA data cable, cleaning brush, drive U disk, portable screwdriver, M.2 SSD fixing screw, as well as one-two RGB extension cable, dragon shield sticker and so on.
This motherboard uses a very classic black and white (silver) color scheme, the motherboard PCB is black, using 2oz thickened copper and 6 layers of PCB made of server-grade material. The various metal cooling armor is silver white, the left side of the cooling armor is equipped with the Dragon Soul LOGO with RGB lights, the entire CPU powered MOS tube, as well as the M.2 slot, and the south bridge part is also covered with metal cooling armor. Overall, this motherboard looks very high-end and high-grade.
In terms of power supply configuration, 16+1+1 phase direct connection power supply is adopted, of which The DrMos responsible for the power supply part of the CPU core is RAA220075R0, and the maximum pass-through current is 75A, with dual 8pin external power supply.
In terms of memory, it is designed with four memory slots, supporting DDR4 memory, supporting MEMORY BOOST technology, and the maximum capacity supported is 128G. In terms of frequency, the official data given is the DDR4 memory that supports 5200MHz+ (OC) at the maximum.
The motherboard is designed with three PCI-E x16 length slots, the first slot with metal reinforcement, using the SMT soldering process, strengthening the soldering strength of the slot, can withstand heavier graphics cards, not easy to deform. Its channel bandwidth is provided by the CPU and supports up to PCI-E 5.0 x16. The other two slots, channel bandwidth by the Z690 chipset, support up to PCI-E 4.0 x4. Properly battle the future series, and other graphics cards that support PCI-E 5.0 x16 are available, and they can be used as well. I just don't know if the 40 series graphics card can return to the civilian price.
The motherboard comes with four 4.0 M.2 connectors, all with heat sinks, which is what MSI officially calls M.2 Frost Armor. The M.2 interface near the CPU is PCI-E4.0 22110, and the other three are all PCI-E4.0 2280. The two near the CPU support PCI-E 4.0 x4 mode, and the channel bandwidth is provided by the CPU. The two in the bottom row not only support PCI-E 4.0 x4 mode, but are also compatible with SATA mode, and the channel bandwidth is up to the Z690 chipset. In total, all four support PCI-E 4.0 x4 mode, which is much stronger than the B660 motherboard in this regard.
All the one-piece I/O bezel of the motherboard also adopts a silver-white design, which makes the overall appearance of the motherboard more beautiful. From left to right, the I/O interfaces are two traditional USB2.0 interfaces, one DP and one HDMI interface, five USB3.2 Gen 2 10Gbps (Type-A), one USB3.2 Gen 2x2 20Gbps (Type-C) interface, one 2.5G wired LAN port, a set of WIFI antenna interfaces, and a set of audio interfaces.
Two: test platform hardware display
Processor: Intel I5-12600K (boxed)
Radiator: MSI Frost K360 360 All-in-One CPU Water Cooled Radiator
Motherboard: MSI MPG Z690 EDGE TI WIFI DDR4 Blade Titanium Motherboard
HDD: Asgard 1TB SSD M.2 interface (NVMe protocol) AN3.0 (Yangtze River storage granules)
Memory stick: Gloway 16GB (8Gx2) set DDR4 3200 YiPro series RGB light bar (Changxin granules)
Graphics: Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Vulcan X
Chassis: None
Power supply: MSI MPG A850GF rated 850W full module computer power supply
Display: MSI MAG274QRF-QD 27-inch gaming monitor
The processor is I5-12600K, this processor is 10 cores and 16 threads, of which 6 performance cores use Golden Cove architecture, support hyper-threading technology, the highest turbo frequency of 4.9GHz, 4 energy efficiency cores use Gracemont architecture, the highest turbo frequency of 3.6GHz, using 20MB L3 and 9.5MB L2 cache. Nuclear UHD770 is equivalent to GT740, which can be used as a bright machine card, can save money, and certainly does not buy a premium graphics card.
MSI (MSI) Frost K360 360 integrated CPU water-cooled radiator, with MSI motherboard is still good to use, with other brands of motherboard, there are many less functions, such as lighting programming function. Because its luminous control interface is USB,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, It is MSI's high-end water cooling, with a 2.4-inch customizable LCD screen, support for the MYSTIC LIGHT system and Asetek 7th generation water pump.
The water-cooled head of the product is also equipped with a 6cm fan, which can realize the auxiliary cooling function for the CPU power supply module, and the service life is up to 5W hours. The product comes with 3 ARGB TORX4.0 fans, supportSWM speed regulation, speed 0-2600RPM, air volume of 77.4CFM, support ARGB shenguang synchronization. The LCD display module can choose to display four styles: hardware information detection, image, custom slogan and clock. MSI is becoming more and more professional in computer accessories, the heat dissipation effect is very strong, 12600K exceeds 5.0G, the copy machine CPU does not exceed 80 degrees. Now K360 will come with its own 1700 buckle, before the purchase of no attachment 1700 buckle, you need to go to the msi official website to apply, after the review will send you a courier, it is also very convenient.
Asgart AN3.0 SSD is a PCIe 3.0 SSD, which adopts the TLC 3D NAND flash memory stored by the domestic Yangtze River and is packaged by Jiahe Jinwei. Domestic Lianyun MAP1202A master control, 22nm process, and support PCIe Gen3X4 NVMe1.4 protocol, no cache, with 3600MB/s and 3600MB/s read and write speed, can be fully comparable to the performance of those foreign first-line brands. In terms of after-sales service, the product is a five-year warranty, or 600TBW. However, the biggest feature of this product is that its temperature control is very good, basically maintained at about 44 degrees.
It is an RGB memory stick owned by Guangwei, the full name is Guangweiyi Pro 3200 frequency RGB lamp bar, I am using the 16G (8X2) version here. The use of long-core A-die particles, 22nm, the timing is 16-20-20-40, which is a relatively popular timing. However, there is also a certain overclocking potential, as long as the motherboard is not bad, in fact, Changxin particles can basically exceed 3600MHz, and then high need to pick out the particles.
Colorful (Colorful) iGame GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER Vulcan X, as a high-end non-public graphics card, the heat dissipation has always been very good, dual 8pin power interface. The Boost frequency is 1650 MHz when one-button overclocking is not turned on, while the frequency after overclocking with one button turned on is 1875 MHz. Using the SWORIZER 2.0 heatsink, the featured iGame Status Monitor 2.0 display, with iGame Zone II software, the core frequency, temperature, memory occupancy, GPU usage, fan speed, system time and custom pictures of the graphics card can be displayed on this screen, and the gameplay is very rich. However, no matter how good the product, it has also begun to fall behind, and it has not been able to beat the 3060 graphics card in terms of performance.
MSI's MPG A850GF rated 850W full module computer power supply, QIAOWEI OEM, using four 12V outputs, support 12V intelligent monorail joint output, 12V graphics card output of 480W, 12V CPU output of 300W. It is the flagship of the MSI power supply family, using all-Japanese capacitors, 80PLUS Gold certified, and supporting a ten-year warranty.
The power supply uses a 14cm FDB bearing fan and is operating with only 22dB of noise. The quality of the flat module cable is very good, it is convenient to walk the back line inside the chassis, and the wire of the power supply is rich, and the user does not need to invest in additional cable costs. The power supply is small and heavy, can adapt to more size chassis, and can provide more internal space, so that the internal air circulation of the chassis is smoother, and the heat dissipation performance is better. And it is a full module power supply, easily bringing up 30 series graphics cards.
27-inch large screen, it adopts Rapid IPS fast LCD panel, original color quantum dot technology, supports 2K (2560×1440) resolution, 165Hz refresh rate, 1ms GTG fast response, 147% sRGB ultra-wide color gamut, HDR Ready technology, NVIDIA G-Sync Compatible tear-proof, shadow dynamic boost and other functions. The image is clear, the color is realistic, you can connect various interfaces, with it, playing the game is very cool. The panel is AUO 8.2, very good panel, supports acoustic 2k 165hz, 10bit is 8 jitter 10, monitor supports GSYNC, very good. There are many built-in interfaces, sending DP, HDMI, USB output cable, with 2 USB inputs and Typec (15w), and RGB lighting effects on the back.
MSI MAG274QRF-QD 27-inch gaming display, 2000 gear invincible, atmospheric appearance, exquisite workmanship, can freely lift and lower, can also rotate ninety degrees, various angles can be adjusted, the base supports support pitch (-5 degrees ~ 20 degrees), lifting (0 ~ 100mm), left and right (-75 degrees ~ 75 degrees) and rotation (-90 degrees ~ 90 degrees) adjustment. It can also be connected to USB, expand the USB port of the host, and also provide a USB charging port, which is very convenient to charge the mobile phone.
Directly overrun 12600K to 5.0G, CPU core voltage is 1.3V, memory is turned on XMP by default, frequency is 3200MHz, timing is 16-20-20-40.
Using AIDA64 software to test the CPU for copying machines, running for 40 minutes, the temperature performance is still very good, has not exceeded 80 degrees. I have to say that the MSI (MSI) Frost K360 360 integrated CPU water-cooled radiator is still very strong, and it is still very good to suppress the 12600K after overclocking.
Lu Guru score shows that the performance of this host beats 95% of users nationwide.
CINEBENCH20 with 23 software scores demonstrated.
wPrime software score display.
For the average overclocking gamer, the MSI MPG Z690 EDGE TI WIFI DDR4 Blade Titanium Motherboard is a great fit. First of all, its appearance is relatively high, and it has taken the black and white color route. Secondly, the motherboard is also very good in terms of materials, workmanship, and after-sales service, with rich interfaces and powerful functions. Finally, it uses DDR4 memory, which can save a lot of investment for players with limited budgets.