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MSI went with American Megatrend's BIOS for the X58M, just as they do for their other motherboards. The main menu's layout is clean and easy to use.
In the standard CMOS features, the date and time can be adjusted and the page also displays information about the drives hooked up to the board.
The advanced BIOS features menu is the place to setup the boot sequence. The other options are mostly uninteresting and will usually be left to default settings.
The Integrated Peripherals page is where you can enable the various onboard controllers such as USB, LAN and FireWire.
The Power Management Setup is rather self explanatory. It defines the sleep state to use and the action taken when the power button is pressed.
In the H/W monitor menu, fans can be set to spin at a certain percentage, while the processor's fan can be dynamically controlled by the motherboard depending on temperature.
The Green Power page let's you enable the motherboard's ability to shut down phases in order to save power. It also gives the processor's current power consumption.
Just an update for any future readers out there, directly responding to some of the shortcomings outlined in this review.
MOSFET's now have a small heatsink built in and the entire board comes black.