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MSI X58 Eclipse Review & Overclocking ... Core i7 920 4.1GHz on Air! - PAGE 4
William Henning - Monday, November 24th, 2008

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Ahh... the Cell menu - where all the overclocking controls live! 

It won't even fit into one screen height, it takes two to show you all the top level controls; this menu gives you a ton of control over voltages and timing.

The CPU Specifications gives you just that - information about the specifics of the processor installed in the motherboard.

The QPI configuration lets you slow down the default QPI setup:

MEMORY-Z lets you look at the SPD information for all installed DIMM's:

Advanced DRAM configuration lets you control the timing parameters:

Here is the Memory Ratio popup:

The ClockGen Tuner:

MSI is kind enough to give us FOUR sets of user settings!

M-Flash worked fine for me - I updated the BIOS to the latest beta before testing the board:

Here is the pop-up CPU specs, from a function key:

And the popup Memory-Z from another function key:

 


Article Index

1.Introduction
2.The Board
3.The BIOS
4.More BIOS
5.Test Setup & Benchmarks Used
6.Business Winstone & Content Creation
7.CineBench & POV-Ray
8.WinRAR, HDTach & HDTune
9.LAME MP3 & TMPGEnc
10.Call of Duty & Commanche 4
11.Doom 3 & Quake 4
12.Halo, Jedi Knight & UT4K
13.Sandra
14.RightMark Read & Write
15.RightMark Latency & Bandwidth
16.World In Conflict
17.Crysis
18.Devil May Cry 4
19.Dynasty Warriors 6
20.Overclocking, Power Consumption & Conclusion

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