BIOS Features
There a lot of great BIOS features on the MSI Big Bang Trinergy – I’ll show screenshots of most of them there and comment as necessary. For enthusiasts looking for a capable BIOS, the MSI engineers have done well here!
These three screens show the various hardware monitoring available for users and you can see there is a lot of detail – even going as far as having monitors on each Dr. MOS unit.
The Cell Menu is where you’ll spend most of your time as it holds the overclocking controls.
These two screens show the CPU specifications and what features you can enable or disable – pretty standard stuff.
Here you can see that the MSI motherboard allows you to modify the base clock up to 600 MHz! It’s nice to think positively.
The Trinergy BIOS does allow you to easily view the standard and extended SPD settings for your memory if you want to use them as reference.
Still more options! For your overclocking joy MSI lets you change the memory ratio, QPI ratio, adjust the PCIe frequencies as well as manually adjust the DRAM timings…
…like so.
Here are the goods: the voltage options on the Trinergy board are pretty impressive. What you see here are the highest available settings are what is being shown in the shot above.
There are some extended functions in the BIOS as well, including the ability to flash the BIOS with the need for a boot drive (every motherboard better have this now) and the ability to same the BIOS profile to a drive in order to share it or save it for later.
These two final screens show options that are available right on the home screen of the BIOS with the use of an “F” key to quick get information about your memory configuration or CPU settings without have to go in through the menu true. Handy!
i was a pre-order, im about
i was a pre-order, im about to hit 5 years on this board and its going strong. it has had water sprayed over it 5 times in its life from the liquid cooling system failing, it has been running at a 4.98Ghz over clock for nearly 3 years, it has never been off for more than a few days out of the last 5 years.
“i wounder who would have this board that long” – referencing the 8 year warranty. I am well on my way and aside from upgrading HD space, ram, and video card it has had very little done to it since its build in 09. very solid board and cpu (860), so solid in fact that nothing i do on a daily basis maxes out this system.
soo..in the x16 PCIe 2.0
soo..in the x16 PCIe 2.0 slots i can put a GPU?