MSI P55-GD80 Superb motherboard for any type of use

Author: Toni 'HaoKi' Siik Published: 17.01.2010 Manufacturer: MSI Product Group: Motherboards In English Suomeksi

BIOS

While most users will rarely need to change the BIOS-settings, there are some who fiddle with them constantly in search of better performance. Here I'll go through the most important pages from the BIOS.

Here's the view we are greeted with when we open the BIOS. Nothing considerably different from other motherboards.

H/W Monitor

In the H/W Monitor page we can check out some of the most important voltages and change some fan-speeds if we want to.

Green Power

In the Green Power page we can change which of the Green Power features are enabled. In addition to turning the whole feature on and off, we can switch all of them on and off separately, if we want to.

M-Flash

M-Flash is MSIs implementation of USB Drive base BIOS updates, backups and you should also be able to boot the motherboard with BIOS which is stored on the drive. It can also be used to repair the BIOS in-case it a BIOS update has gone bad etc.

Overclocking Profiles

It is always nice if you can save your BIOS settings somewhere, so you won't have to reset everything after clearing the CMOS etc. This somewhere on MSIs motherboard is the Overclocking profiles page in the BIOS. There you can save 6 different profiles and name them to your liking. There you also have the setting on how many times the setup will try to boot with the settings if the overclocking fails for some reason, before changing back to some safer settings.

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