MSI 870A Fuzion Power Edition EXCLUSIVE Review
Testbed, BIOS & OC Genie
Published: 23rd September 2010 | Source: MSI | Price: £120 Est |
Testbed
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T BE 3.20GHz Processor
MSI 870A FUZION Power Edition Motherboard
Corsair Dominator GT 4GB 2000mhz
ATi Radeon HD 5870 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
ATi Radeon HD 5770 1GB GDDR5 Graphics Card
nVidia GeForce GTX 480 Graphics Card
Corsair AX1200w PSU
Windows 7 Home Premium x64
BIOS
Unlike a number of manufacturers, MSI use the Phoenix BIOS style layout. Regardless, it is easy enough to navigate around its sub menu's. MSI have also used relatively generic parameter names, making it simpler to identify them.
The 870A FUZION offers plenty of scope within BIOS to reach high frequencies, both by offering large Base HTT and Overvoltage ranges. Much like how the slowest of cars have speedometers that go all the way to 140mph, we don't as yet know if the 870A can max itself out. I suppose you can guess what we're about to do next...
Automated Overclocking - OC Genie
Let's get the boring bit out of the way - automatic overclocking. In fairness, not all of us have the time to navigate through BIOS, engage in the trial and error process of overclocking and then waste hours on end verifying stability. Instead, MSI offer an automated tool which will do all of the work for you. So we pressed the big glowing button and we found this...
After the OC Genie had finished having its way with our system, it finally left our 1090T processor with an overall frequency of 3.62GHz; roughly a 400MHz boost over its default frequency. Obviously, the end result won't be quite as good as a manually configured overclock but for a quick and cheap performance boost it does the job very well.
Next stop, Manual overclocking.
Most Recent Comments
great looking board....
Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental.
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Originally Posted by El Gappo
When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me |
I have the MSI P55-GD65 and the OC genie button works like Poo
Fantastic as ever guys, and a special thanks to Mul for absolutely kicking the s**t out of it.
Fabulous stuff.
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Originally Posted by El Gappo
When he pressed the OC genie button it automatically opened up an msn chat with me Cheers for the heads up tom, board looks mental. |
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Originally Posted by SiN
Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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Originally Posted by SiN
Dude, I didn't know you were on here! It's D3FiN3 SiN/firestormcomputers from OCN . |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
All the cool kids are here |
And yes, I am now a cool kid
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Originally Posted by Delusion77
I guess this board really surprised you guys |
TTl your cpu-z sig is looking much healthier now
Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard?
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Originally Posted by Zeals
What's the best heat sink for this if i want to fill all memory slots, the RAM is 35mm tall. Also can I run 2x460 SLI on this motherboard? |
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Originally Posted by Mul
2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (16x/16x Dual CrossfireX, SLI, ATi + nVidia)
2 x PCIe 1x 1 x PCI |
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Originally Posted by AlienALX
The Noctua NH14 will clear regular ram. It only has issues with Dominator ram. |
I wasn't aware that loads of companies made oversized tbh. I know Gskill do that Ripjaw stuff.
You do need to run a Physx mod/hack (mod is a nicer word) but yes, you can.
You might need to run that mod for this board, I don't know. Usually Nvidia disables Physx when it sees an ATI card present. And the way it does this is the driver looks at the Device manager and then at the DEV_ID for the graphics cards. If it sees the ATI DEV number (1002 as the vendor code) then it simply disables the Physx function. However, this is easy to get around using GenL Physx Mod 1.04ff.
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