CPU and RAM performance:
Our CPU section will focus on the performance of the i5-14600KF. It’s important to note that this B760M Gaming Plus Wifi does not allow CPU overclocking. So we’ll just take a look at how well it performs.
Reference scores and effective frequencies :
Let’s take a look at the results obtained under Cinebench R20 and R23, taking care to also note the voltage (vcore), max temperature during the benchmark, power consumption and, of course, the score obtained.
We’re taking advantage of this test to take a look at effective frequencies, voltages and temperatures. As we can see from the Benchmate window, the effective frequency is very close to the maximum frequency. Here, we’re at 99.73 Mhz at the BCLK, which has a negative impact on processor and RAM frequency. The BCLK cannot be adjusted in the Bios, and core ratios are also locked. It will therefore not be possible to increase performance in this area. As for temperature and power consumption, we’re at around 70°C and 165W for these benchmarks.
Memory overclocking
We now turn to this motherboard’s memory overclocking capabilities. Here, the B760M Gaming Plus Wifi doesn’t aim to offer the best experience in this area. MSI claims maximum compatibility at 6800 MT/s on its datasheet, but in reality we had no trouble running XMP at 7800C36.
As for maximum achievable performance, we managed to reach 8000 Mt/s in pure benchmark mode, with a fairly light profile at 8000CL34, extending very close to the instability limit on Geekbench 3.
For this motherboard, we recommend XMP at 7200 CL34 in 2×16 Gb or 7200 CL36 in 2×24 Gb to maximize performance while maintaining a margin of stability. There’s nothing to stop you from manually overclocking the RAM to get even more performance. Simply switching from the XMP 7800 CL36 to a relatively complete profile at 8000 CL34 yielded a 3% score gain in multi and 6.6% in single on Geekbench 3.
