Board Software

The MSI Center software is simple to install, and you're able to pick the packages you want rather than being forced to install everything. The main issue is constant reminders to install Norton Antivirus afterward, but you can just disable notifications for the app to stop this. Kind of annoying though MSI, and unfitting of a halo-tier product.

The features you'll likely want are Mystic Light for RGB lighting, Cooling Wizard for controlling fans, and User Scenario for quickly setting performance and cooling profiles. For the Godlike X Edition we also have Dynamic Dashboard, for control over the LCD.

With the latter, you're able to pick which inputs are displayed from a range of options including fan speeds, temperatures and frequencies. You can also control the image design and customize it with your own 400x 864 pixel image or video. You can opt for a clock design or custom banner and music options.

Mystic Light has the usual RGB lighting controls as well as the ability to control certain RAM lighting too, plus you can sync the lighting to games and music. Cooling Wizard is a little clumsy compared to the competition as you have to jump through a few hoops to get at the fan curve graph. Once there, you have most of the options you get in the EFI, but it is missing a few. Thankfully, you can switch temperature inputs, but there's no option to sync the fan speeds to your SSD temperature like you can with ASUS boards.