MSI Z87-G43 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

Included Software

Command Center

As we mentioned on the previous page MSI’s Command Center feature is one of its biggest selling points. The software allows you to tweak fan speeds to control your CPU temperatures and even overclock from within the operating system.

On the DRAM tab you can also adjust more clock settings and voltages.

There’s also a GPU tab to allow you to tweak the onboard GPU if you actually feel like using that.

The RAMDisk tab allows you to create a RAMDisk from free RAM.

The final tab includes MSI’s famous OC Genie which automatically overclocks your system for you.

Sound Blaster Cinema

As part of MSI’s Realtek ALC 892 audio package they also include Sound Blaster Cinema software which essentially allows you to tweak and tune aspects of your audio to better suit the needs of certain applications.

Super RAID

MSI’s Super RAID has quite a deceptive name because there isn’t actually that much RAID going on from MSI’s side. the Super RAID tab allows you to implement three of Intel’s storage related technologies as seen below.

Fast Boot

MSI’s Fast Boot feature allows you to boot into the BIOS faster by automatically disabling unnecessary startup options and features that may slow your system down. They also include a G02BIOS button which is a software replacement for the lack of a hardware GO2BIOS button which is becoming ever more common on motherboards these days.

Live Update 5

Live Update 5 is the last trick up MSI’s sleeve that we are showing you and this software allows you to keep all your drivers and BIOSes up to date as well as all the MSI utilities. It is handy having something that remembers to keep things up to date for you.