BIOS Overview

The Godlike X Edition branding makes its way to the EFI too, but the features here also make it a useful tool in setting up your PC too. The EZ Mode page allows you to do most things without having to delve into the deeper menus, such as setting memory profiles, enabling PBO, changing the boot order, or having quick access to fan control and BIOS flashing.

The Hardware Monitor page is where you'll find fan control, which is mostly excellent. You have spin-up and spin-down times, the option to switch between temperature inputs including the two thermistor inputs, switching between PWM and voltage modes, even adding and removing fan curve adjustment points.

The latter is an exclusive feature too and a lot of these other features are not possible on ASRock boards from this interface, giving MSI extra points. We can see below the extra system fan headers provided by the included fan hub too. A feature we'd like to see added is the ability to drag the fan curve up or down as a whole with one adjustment point, which is something you can do on ASUS and Gigabyte boards.

Other useful features here include a customizable favorites section, user profiles that save all settings, customization for the Smart Button, and a BIOS log review. A search function provides quick access to most features, which are then configurable within the search box, although most PBO options are excluded from this so you'll need to find them manually.

The menu system here is perhaps a little clumsy with a Godlike X Edition logo sitting over the actual menus, which then disappears to reveal them once your mouse hangs over it. We'd prefer if they were always visible for easier access. Overclocking is done mostly through the overclocking section under the advanced tab at the top, but there's the usual AMD Overclocking section for key PBO controls under Advanced CPU configuration too.