Overclock
With this being part of the Super Overclock line the overclocking testing was what I was most excited to get into. For my testing I ran through the EasyTune overclocking to see what kind of results I would get and compared them next to similar software overclocks from the other X99 boards. Then after that I went in and saw what I could do manually on our test bench. Keep in mind the test bench is still running on air and I wouldn’t consider myself to be anything close to a top level overclocker. That said, it is a level playing field from board to board.
So jumping into the testing I ran the auto tuning, to get started I had to click on the creepy red light. Once started the tuning software shows the CPU clock speed, ratio and Bclk that it is currently running. You can watch it go through and do a stability test on each overclock. After about 15 minutes It finished up and I had a 36.67% improvement over the stock clock speed (4.1 GHz). This was an improvement over the MSI board but still lower than the Asus board tested. The MSI didn’t do any testing at all but in this case I was surprised that the software wasn’t able to get a little higher by doing a similar overclock and test like what Asus does.
After finishing that testing I did jump into it manually to see what the SOC Champion was capable of. Not surprisingly I ran into the exact same wall that I have hit previously on other X99 boards with a still very impressive 4.85 limited by our CPU and most likely also by our air cooling. With someone with more skills and a lot of LN2 I’m sure the SOC Champion is much more capable, especially considering the features I saw and went over earlier. On top of that this board is designed to support crazy fast RAM as well with a listed support of 3400MHz.
Motherboard |
Overclock reached via software |
Overclock reached manually |
Asus X99 Deluxe |
4.7 |
4.85 |
EVGA X99 Classified |
N/A |
4.85 |
MSI X99S MPower |
3.7 |
4.85 |
Gigabyte X99 SOC Chamption |
4.1 |
4.85 |