Review: MSI X399 Gaming Carbon Pro AC

CPU Tests

We're comparing two things: firstly, how the MSI performs against the all-singing, all-dancing Asus Zenith Extreme, and secondly, how the AMD Threadripper platform fares against Intel.

Users looking for fast single-threaded performance ought to go for Intel, but Threadripper excels in multi-threaded scenarios. MSI does just enough to eke past Asus, most likely helped by having a more recent BIOS.