UEFI and Software

MSI bundles their new Command Center software with the Z87-G45 Gaming. I was very happy to see that MSI has been working on creating a central piece of software for motherboards similar to what they have been doing with Afterburner with video cards. In the past their software was fragmented and hard to use, Command Center helps improve that.  The software does allow you detail control of your cooling and overclocking. They have also built in RAMDisk into the software itself as well. This is especially interesting because typical RAMDdisk software isn’t cheap if you want anything more than a 4Gb RAMDisk size, MSI promises unlimited capacity.

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We are still able to dig in and check out the Z87-G45 Gaming’s UEFI though. MSI calls it click BIOS 4 but it is UEFI bios with full mouse control. To show you all of the features I have a basic walkthrough video that shows all of its features below. I love the top bar that gives you the time and temperatures right up top for you to see while you are adjusting settings. The three options on the left stay open all of the time but the right side of the screen sometimes has three options but when you are adjusting settings the right side shows a short explanation of each option to help you understand what you are looking at.

The UEFI overall worked well with my mouse but if you watch the video you will see that I did have a problem when I get more than one option deep into settings, clicking the back button would take me all the way back to the home page, it was a little frustrating. The other issue I ran into is how the bios reacts to scroll wheel use. As it should, when you scroll it arrows down through the options listed on your screen at the time. My problem was if you move the mouse over those same options while scrolling it stops everything you are doing because mousing over an option overrides whatever location you are currently on. Considering how much room the BIOS options take up, this made scrolling to find the option I need a little difficult. Beyond those two issues though the bios was filled with interesting features like the board diagram that will even show you what hard drives you have plugged into what SATA port visually. I think MSI still needs to tweak the UEFI to make it a little smoother to use, but they have a good UEFI as a base to work from.

 

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garfi3ld replied the topic: #31241 01 Jun 2013 23:10
A look at MSI's Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard

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