Bundled Applications
Included Applications
- Command Center
- Super Charger
- Live Update 6
- Smart Utilities
- ECO Center
- XSplit Gamecaster V2
- Fast Boot
- Gaming App
- M-Cloud
- RAMDisk
- Intel Extreme Tuning Utility
- MSI Gaming LAN Manager
- Norton Internet Security Solution
- Nahimic Audio
- Google Chrome Browser
- SteelsSeries Engine 3
- CPU-Z
The Command Center is a centralize utility for board settings configuration and tuning, similar in nature to the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility. The Super Charger applet allows the user to fast-charge USB devices from the board's USB ports. The Nihimic Audio applet is used to configure the on-board audio subsystem. Live Update 6 give the user a Windows-based interface for BIOS backup and update. The ECO Center applet houses settings for controlling board component power usage. The Xsplit Gamecaster V2 utility can be used to create in-game recordings and live streams. The Gaming App applet allows the user to configure game-related performance enhancements for quick access. M-Cloud in an MSI utility to configure your system as a WiFi access point. The MSI RAMDisk applet allows you to create a drive from available system memory. The MSI Gaming LAN Manager applet can be used to optimize network use and traffic.
MSI Command Center
The MSI Command Center application serves as a centralized utility for Windows-based performance configuration and tuning. Included in the interface are settings mirroring those available in the BIOS for the CPU, DRAM and GPU.
CPU section, Manual mode CPU fan and voltage settings
DRAM and IGP settings
GAME BOOST settings
Advanced section pop-ups
Settings section pop-ups
Information section pop-ups
Command Center in mini mode
MSI Gaming App
The MSI Gaming App utility is a simplified interface for changing your system’s CPU and fan speeds based on three available pre-sets – OC Mode, Gaming Mode, and Silent Mode. Changes are enacted upon clicking on one of the Mode buttons in the interface. The applet also allows for use of user created mouse macros and hot-keys in game, as well an an in-game OSD displaying selected system attributes.
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility
The Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is an application providing board and subsystem level information about the CPU and memory speeds, allowing for both automated and manual based overclocking of the board. Additionally, multiple stress tests are integrated into the application for settings testing as well as area to save and retrieve settings profiles.
Manual Tuning section, Core settings page
Manual Tuning section, Cache and Graphics settings page
Stress Test page
Stress Test page, test in progress
Benchmark Test page
Benchmark Test page with results shown
Profiles page
Application Profile Pairing page
MSI Gaming LAN Manager
The MSI Gaming LAN Manager applet provides the user with settings and monitoring tools for configuring the on-board network adapter for for gaming use. It offers the same functionality as offered with the Killer NIC series of network adapters. The Applications, Network, and Advanced pages give the user control over adapter operation and application based traffic prioritization.
Application page
Performance page
Network Test page
Advanced Setting page
Information page
MSI RAMDisk
The MSI RAMDisk application is used to setup a write-able partition using a portion of your system memory.
Great looking board, but for
Great looking board, but for $300 I think it needs more USB 3.0 slots, and duel x16 Xfire/SLI.
Why dual x16 slots? There’s
Why dual x16 slots? There’s no performance benefit when talking about pci-e 3.0. The bandwidth available even with x8 is more than any current video card can use.
Do you even know the
Do you even know the difference between slots and ports ?
Not to mention the obvious difference between duel and dual.
The education system sucks so bad.
I blame spell checkers! They
I blame spell checkers! They do not have proper contextual spell checking and Duel, and Dual are easy to overlook when proof reading! Once proper contextual spell checking becomes available via HSA and GPU accelerated Spell Checking, then mistakes like this will occur less often. Contextual spell checking requires a great amount of processing and automated definition checking/phrase matching algorithms, so GPGPU will be reguired.
P.S. some people have Dyslexia and can not spell to save their lives!
Edit: reguired
To:
Edit: reguired
To: required.
See what I’m saying, Dyslexia is a pain!
Do you suck in real life,
Do you suck in real life, that you took the time to insult someone spelling to make you feel better?
Damn, lighten up man. Who
Damn, lighten up man. Who cares if he doesn’t know duel/dual. Seems like disparaging the entire educational system (of where?) is a bit much, don’t you think?
That aside this is still
That aside this is still LGA1151. so i think it is useless to have two x16 slot wired for x16 config.
By default, that’s right.
By default, that's right. But some manufacturers include a PLX chip so that both the primary and secondary PCIe slots get the full x16 bandwidth…
The PCB color reminds me of
The PCB color reminds me of the old Soyo Dragon Ultra.
Oh yeah, I had those
Oh yeah, I had those crash-prone pieces of crap. The via 133 AGP chipset was the worst thing ever. I went through 4 of those boards before I figured out it would just not work right. It was a great looking board though. It is nice to see the color scheme again, on a much better MSI board this time!
Sorry, I meant KT333 chipset.
Sorry, I meant KT333 chipset.
Does anyone know if I can
Does anyone know if I can RAID 0 two M.2 drives with a z170 board and be able to boot/install Windows on the RAID? I really want to pickup two of the new 512MB Samsung 950 Pros and create a 1TB system drive.
Yes you can create a NVME
Yes you can create a NVME raid 0 . You do lose 2 sata for that though
windows 7 — good luck, it’s
windows 7 — good luck, it’s nearly impossible, even though it supposedly supports it. Windows 10, no problem, just have to feed it the storage drivers from the included msi disk during the install process.
I’d buy it for just the
I’d buy it for just the audio…and the looks !
No USB-C ? No dice !
No USB-C ? No dice !
I have try installed
I have try installed Wi-Fi/Bluetooth combine card on PCI-E(2or4), the windows 10 can’t found the hardware and BIO’s showed PCI-E slot is “EMPTY”. Does anyone know why?
I had a simillar issue. Ended
I had a simillar issue. Ended up getting a cheap usb adapter and plugging it into the case. Works great.