![]() ![]() Mouse movements were again smooth in this MSI board, as it was in Tomahawk Arctic. The Click BIOS 5 worked well in my limited time working with the board. The default is auto-sensing and worked fine when I had swapped out fans on the same header or on a different header. All headers on the board are able to control the attached fans by either PWM or DC(voltage) methods. Here users are able to see information regarding fan speed system temperatures, and several voltages including CPU Core, CPU IO, CPU SA, DRAM, as well as power supply voltages for the 12V and 5V rails. Last up in the BIOS is the Hardware Monitor section. Note when flashing your BIOS to a newer version, the profiles stored will be lost. Users are able to dial in a working and stable overclock, or a simple change in settings, and save it to one of the six profiles on the board, or they are able to be saved (and loaded from) a USB stick. ![]() The OC Profile section covers saving and loading the settings in the BIOS. If there isn't a newer BIOS than what is currently installed it will say so. In this case, it will reach out to the server, find and download the file, and install it. The other method is to have the motherboard check the MSI website for the latest version. If it is USB, simply select the drive and navigate to the file, click OK, and wait a minute or so for it to reboot and complete. There are two options where the source BIOS comes from, either a USB stick or from the internet. The M-Flash screen is not pictured, but this section is where a user can update the BIOS. There are a couple more screens worth of secondary and tertiary timings, below the screenshot posted a dizzying amount in fact. Here users are able to adjust the all forms of memory timings from the few primary timings like CL, tRCD, tRP, tRAS, tRFC, and the Command Rate. In order to change advanced DRAM options, we will need to enter the Advanced DRAM Configuration section. For ambient overclocking (and this review), purposes, there is little reason to get into expert mode unless manually setting per core multipliers is the way you happen to go about overclocking or perhaps trying to squeeze the last MHz out of your system. This section also has an option for Normal or Expert, where expert adds a few more advanced overclocking options and expands dropdowns. Items like the CPU Multiplier, BCLK, Memory speed and timings, and a plethora of voltages from VCore, DRAM, and the FIVR, all make their home in this section. The "OC" section is where users are able to make adjustments the CPU and DRAM, and Voltages. There is even an option to secure erase an SSD through the Settings section. Changes to your subsystems from PCIe modes, to VROC Configuration, Integrated Peripherals such as LAN, SATA, and Audio Controllers, USB configurations for enabling/disabling the controller or Legacy support. The Settings section dives into System Status, Advanced, Boot, Security, and a Save & Exit Option. Once in Advanced mode, we see only the bottom two-thirds has changed to display different section of the BIOS users can dig into. In order to reach advanced mode, press F7. Your first boot item will be on the left. Boot Priority is able to be adjusted by simply dragging the icons around the boot priority list. Įditable options in the EZ Mode include XMP Profiles as well as the OC Genie (called Game Boost on the Tomahawk Arctic), for one-touch overclocking. We use the latest available public, non-beta BIOS for testing. Access to M-Flash, Favorites, and Hardware Monitor is also found on this screen. Clicking the sections on the left side provides a bit more detail for each selection. Where the Tomahawk Arctic is predominately black and red, the SLI Plus is black and white, fitting with previous SLI Plus themes. Users are greeted by the EZ Mode version of the BIOS which displays high-level system information such as the CPU used and its current speed, the total amount of RAM installed, as well as CPU and motherboard temperatures, and boot priority. The biggest difference between the two is in the color. ![]() The MSI X299 SLI Plus also uses the Click BIOS 5 found in the Tomahawk Arctic and is quite similar in regards to layout. ![]()
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