MSI 785GM-E65 Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking

The 785GM-E65 motherboard uses a version of American Megatrends AMIBIOS with MSI specific features. The menu is split into Standard CMOS Features, Advanced BIOS Features, Integrated Peripherals, Power Management Setup, HW Monitor, Green Power, BIOS Setting Password and Cell Menu.

Battery

Easy Overclock

The BIOS is very similar to that found on the 790GX-E65 board, in fact it is the same BIOS with the exception of M-Flash menu. This allows you to Flash your BIOS from a USB drive and wasn't present on the earlier board. The Standard CMOS Features is where the drives are detected; the Time/Date and System information are posted.

Advanced BIOS Features includes BIOS Flash Protection, Quick Booting, Primary Graphics Adapter, the CPU Feature, Chipset Feature, Boot Sequence and Trusted Computing menus. CPU Feature is where you can enable or disable SVM and C1E support. The Chipset Features menu is where you enable or disable the on-chip VGA, and UMA Location. If the onboard graphics is enabled the amount of memory is set here.

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The Cell Menu is where the tweaking of the motherboard is done. Here you can adjust the CPU FSB Frequency, the Ratio, the CPU-NB Ratio, enable the Advanced Clock Calibration, Auto Overclock Technology, Multi-Step OC Booster, Memory-Z, Advanced DRAM Configuration, FSB/DRAM Ratio, Onboard VGA Core Overclock, HT Link speed and the various Voltages. The board overclocked well, as can be expected from an AM3 board. I was able to overclock the board to 337MHz FSB with a 9x multiplier and 3050MHz with the default 13x multiplier on a AMD Phenom II X4 810. 100% stable. Using the Overclock jumper the system was stable at 230MHz or the 15% overclock setting.

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