![]() The last pair of MSI mainboards proved to be slower, even though not by much, than similar products from other brands. We couldn’t use their BIOS restore feature properly although the very fact that the BIOS had to be restored was a problem already. We had problems updating their firmware and saving BIOS settings in profiles. Yet even though we use but a limited selection of hardware components and software applications, we have had a lot of problems testing MSI mainboards. We also benchmark its performance and measure its power consumption. Our tests are brief so we can only learn about the behavior of the tested mainboard at its default settings and in overclocked mode. It takes a lengthy and meticulous examination with various peripherals and applications to check out each of a mainboard’s features and capabilities. Otherwise, we might end up with quite different system settings from what we wanted. When we changed one option, we had to make sure this hadn’t affected some others. The second reason for our gripes was the fact that the BIOS parameters of MSI mainboards were interrelated in some complex and inexplicable ways. ![]() Since power-saving technologies are supposed to lower the CPU’s clock rate and voltage at low loads, that peculiarity made energy-efficient overclocking impossible. Notwithstanding the general appearance of overclocker-friendliness, they only let you increase their voltage by fixing it at a certain level. In our latest reviews of MSI mainboards we were not very enthusiastic about them for a number of reasons. But it began as a manufacturer of mainboards and this product category remains prominent in what MSI has to offer. ![]() Micro-Star Corporation currently outputs an extensive range of products under the MSI brand, from small things like USB splitters to large and expensive servers.
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