High End X58 Motherboard Roundup: Asus, Gigabyte and MSI Compared, Overclocked and Dissected

Motherboards/Intel S1366 by leeghoofd @ 2010-11-10

In this roundup of second generation X58 motherboards we put the best products from Asus, Gigabyte and MSI through the OC grinder, to find out which one can help you push your hardware to the limit. Some in-depth overclocking analysis lies ahead.
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MSI Big Bang-XPower X58: BIOS and Software Explored

Without wasting too much words, here are the bios screenies :

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MSI Core Center

MSI developped their own software tool too, called Core Center.

 

 

 

General information tabs, providing all you need to know about the hardware in your system. The presets are default, cooling (-3 bclock), Cinema (+3 bclock) and gaming (+7 bclock) Software is sitll a bit buggy as in one screen you can read out 1.7Vcore in the default tab (though DMM confirmed it was still at 1.25)

 

 

For the green guys, power saving functions galore. I'll let the screenshot talk for themselves...

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