Is MSI lying?

[SirFlamenco]

I saw this today : https://www.msi.com/blog/detail/skylake-z170-overclocking-experience-247-air-water-and-sub-zero-cooling-oc-results

 

They used the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO for air-cooling... and they got 4800mhz. It was "slightly unstable" so they settled it to 4700mhz. Is it normal or they are just bullshitting in order to sell more MSI motherboards? 

[Energycore]

6 minutes ago, SirFlamenco said:

I saw this today : https://www.msi.com/blog/detail/skylake-z170-overclocking-experience-247-air-water-and-sub-zero-cooling-oc-results

 

They used the Cooler Master Hyper TX3 EVO for air-cooling... and they got 4800mhz. It was "slightly unstable" so they settled it to 4700mhz. Is it normal or they are just bullshitting in order to sell more MSI motherboards? 

They probably tried a couple dozen CPUs and chose the one that had won the silicon lottery

[ARikozuM]

Every company will lie about their products. Best thing to do is find non-biased (pretty hard to do) reviewers with varied benchmarks or tests that show potential and actual. Also do keep in mind that the sample size reviewers use is small so do take them with a grain of salt.

[dfsdfgfkjsefoiqzemnd]

Their boards are usually quite good for overclocking.  When Jay reviewed the X99A Gaming 7, his own 5820K was stable at 4.5 on the first try.  He mentioned in the video that the CPU was unstable if he tried to do the same OC on his Asus or Asrock boards.

 

That being said, 4.7 on Skylake with such a small air cooler (even with the extra fan blowing air onto it) ... that sounds like a cherry-picked CPU indeed. 

[YongKang]

3 minutes ago, Captain Chaos said:

Their boards are usually quite good for overclocking.  When Jay reviewed the X99A Gaming 7, his own 5820K was stable at 4.5 on the first try.  He mentioned in the video that the CPU was unstable if he tried to do the same OC on his Asus or Asrock boards.

 

That being said, 4.7 on Skylake with such a small air cooler (even with the extra fan blowing air onto it) ... that sounds like a cherry-picked CPU indeed. 

4.6 is doable if you have something like a Hyper 212 and Cryorig H7. 4.7 is not outlandish. I would cry for cherry pick when you're hitting 4.8Ghz though.

[vagabond139]

On a TX3 yes unless they strapped a Delta fan to it or something since its a good amount worse than even a Evo 212 and my Phantek TCDX12 with a 3K Nocuta fan on it got about the same temperature at the same speed at less voltage and the case had amazing airflow. Really you shouldn't trust anything direct from the manufacturer like tests since there is bound to be bias in it.