MSI MEG Z490 Godlike Review

Test Setup

MSI MEG Z490 Godlike – 113 BIOS
Intel Core i9-10900K
Corsair LPX 4000 MHz
Corsair MP500 M.2 – OS Drive
Samsung 970 Pro
Corsair AX1600i
Nvidia RTX 2080Ti
Corsair HX1000i
Corsair H150i
Corsair ML Fans
Fractal Define 7

 

Overclocking

We know that we mentioned this when looking at the two new 10th Generation Intel CPUs, but it bears rememebering that this is a 10 core, 20 thread CPU and we’ve gone way beyond 5 GHz on all ten cores. It’s hugely impressive and a combination of clock speeds and core counts that would have been unthinkable not very long ago. Certainly if you want a relatively affordable way of encoding large HD videos, or just gaming to the nth degree, then the Godlike and i9-10900K combination won’t leave you wishing you had more performance. The step up from the quad core CPUs most of us run on the mainstream Intel chipset, and this, is enormous.