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MSI MEG Z390 Ace review – Not quite Godlike, but quite solid | igorsLAB

There is one thing I have to put forward here. In general, I do not use synthetic benchmarks, because they say absolutely nothing in practice and are hardly useful as long-term comparisons. I have tested all applications and games with the default settings and the factory clock of the CPU. Only the memory ran with the 4 GHz XMP profile, so as not to limit too much. I have also intentionally disabled all BIOS tweaks that might differ between manufacturers.

The result is therefore very similar for both boards, because I compared the MSI MEG Z390 ACE to the significantly cheaper MSI MGP Z390 Gaming Edge AC. The differences are always within the range of tolerance and it is not a big difference that one could not perceive in the daily work anyway. This, too, is a statement that makes many motherboard comparisons absurd, if you look at the variation of the results on the same motherboard.

That’s why I’ve always had at least 3 runs done with each run and then accumulated them. That’s why I’ve only used three games that get relatively consistent results. For the rest, the benchmark spread is always greater than the actual differences between the two boards. I just leave the benchmarks as such uncommented, because you really don’t have to roll out and roll out such small differences verbally.

Ergo doesn’t necessarily help a lot of money to perform significantly better in the standard settings. And overclocking doesn’t bring much to a Core i9-9900K, which, despite its fat water cooling, is already running close to the thermal limit. So you will have to look for the differences in the features and in the optics. So I don’t see much difference in the actual application speed.

Application Performance – Graphics

Application Performance – Compute and Rendering

Gaming performance at Full-HD

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Igor Wallossek

Editor-in-chief and name-giver of igor'sLAB as the content successor of Tom's Hardware Germany, whose license was returned in June 2019 in order to better meet the qualitative demands of web content and challenges of new media such as YouTube with its own channel.

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