In the case of MSI it comes via a specific USB 2.0 header on board, allowing up to 1.5 A current draw depending on the device, as well as charging under S5 (off).
MSI, like most motherboard manufacturers, implement a form of fast charging. Aside from the aforementioned issue regarding Trend Micro SafeSync, MSI Suite looks good and offers quick interaction with the MSI tools. The options menu for MSI Suite allows for other utilities to be added as well. It caters for the majority of the MSI Software (not the latest additions), which from left to right are: SuperCharger, ClickBIOS, Control Center, Audio Genie, Video Genie, Teaming Genie, Live Update and EasyViewer. The MSI Suite interface starts as a button on the top of your desktop, which when clicked gives you the menu below. This is quite frankly annoying and somewhat abusive. The first thing we notice on reboot is MSI Suite, which greets us with an annoying error – if you did not install Trend Micro SafeSync as part of the package, it suggests that you install it every single time the system reboots. However after installing the drivers and software, we are good to go. The only things missing from this endeavor are descriptions of what each bit of software is – for example in the picture above, ‘OTPService’ is clearly not a descriptive term. The system will then silently install everything selected and reboot the system accordingly. Clicking this gives a check box list of everything available to install, and the user can deselect options they do not want. The drivers and utilities are in two separate menus, each with separate buttons for different sections, or a ‘Total Installer’ button. For the most part, this works quite well.Įverything starts with the Driver CD interface, which MSI has not updated since I started reviewing their motherboards (see an older P67 review). Over the past year MSI have used the MSI Control Center as their main detailed interface, and is now combined with MSI Suite as an attempt to roll all the individual programs into one interface access. In a normal environment the software should look nice and work flawlessly, but in an ideal environment it could be tricky to decide what functionality should be there, and what form it would take. It is hard to pinpoint the perfect software to complement a motherboard.
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