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MSI K9A2 Platinum Review - PAGE 4
William Henning - Tuesday, January 29th, 2008


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The Wake Up Event Setup under power management gives you quite a bit of choice in what events will bring your computer out of sleep mode.

The PNP/PCI Configuration menu gives you a bit of control over IRQ settings.

The Hardware Monitor screen lets you take a good look at temperatures and voltages on the motherboard; I wish it showed the DDR2 voltage as well.

Now we get to the fun stuff!

The Cell Menu is where you can tweak your processor and memory.

Do yourself a favor and ignore the "D.O.T." stuff - while I am sure MSI spent a lot of effort on their dynamic overcloking, it will not get you as good results as carefully hand tuning your system.

The Cell menu gives you good control over voltages, FSB speed, multiplier and memory settings - I rather like it.

The User Settings menu lets you save two different CMOS configurations - I tend to use it for "tuned safe OC" and "extreme OC" settings. ;-) !


Article Index

1.Introduction
2.The Board
3.The BIOS
4.More BIOS
5.Test Setup & Benchmarks
6.Business Winstone & Content Creation
7.WinRAR & HDTach
8.LAME MP3, TMPGEnc & XVid
9.Call of Duty & Commanche 4
10.Doom 3 & Quake 4
11.Halo, Jedi Knight & UT4K
12.Sandra
13.RightMark Read & Write
14.RightMark Latency & Bandwidth
15.Overclocking & Conclusion

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