MSI MEG Z490 Unify Review

Test Setup

MSI MEG Z490 Unify – A.13 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

Overclocking on the MSI MEG Z490 Unify wasn’t as smooth as we might have hoped. So far with our overclock testing we’ve got 5.2 GHz from our Core i9-10900K on nearly everything, with a peak overclock of 5.4 GHz across all ten cores, albeit too hot and not stable enough to run throughout testing. With the Unify no matter how much voltage we pumped into our test CPU – and the Unify has more than enough power to pump more than you’ll ever need without breaking a sweat – we couldn’t get it stable above 5.1 GHz. This will naturally have an effect in our benchmark results, as until now all the overclock results are with a 5.2 GHz speed.