MSI Center User Scenario vs BIOS Game Boost

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VasiliyM6

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Hi all,
I switched from Asus boards to MSI boards - MSI MPG Z790I Edge WiFi board.I've installed their MSI Center, hoping to use User Scenario to select fan profile. Asus boards has AI Suite software with separate fan control (Fan Xpert part) and overclocking control (TPU part). But in User Scenario it seems to be all in one profile. And you can not divide - set fan rotation as I want and do not touch CPU speed. Am I right? There is no options, if I want to run in quiet mode but don't want to decrease CPU frequency. And how does this User Scenario correlate with BIOS options? For example there, is "Game Boost" button in BIOS for the processor. I pressed the button and the board itself set the values for overclocking. What would be if I select the "balanced" profile in the User Scenario after that?

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The best thing is to do a strict seperation. I always set my fans in the BIOS, see my Guide: How to set up a fan curve in the BIOS. I determine good values for the settings once, then i set them and write them down or make some photos, to be able to re-enter them after a BIOS update. And then i never have to mess with any fan software in Windows. No matter the workload, i will have the optimum balance of airflow and noise, if i set it up correctly like in the guide.

Then the matter of MSI Center and GameBoost. GameBoost is one of the worst functions in the entire BIOS. It's a bad generic CPU overclocking function that will only destroy the efficiency, but not do much for performance. GameBoost can make the results in select benchmarks with a somewhat artificial fully multithreaded load look a bit better, but that's all that it's good for, and it doesn't tend to translate into an advantage for real-life scenarios. On the contrary, it will make things worse in a lot of ways, because it kills the efficiency by cancelling out the intelligent power-saving mechanisms, adding VCore which makes the hot CPUs run even hotter, and the CPU frequencies in single-core or any kind of partial load (which is much more common than full multicore load in daily use) can often end up being lower than if you'd just let it boost normally. All this gets worse, the higher-up your CPU model is, because of Intel pushing the upper models quite hard from factory already, leaving virtually no OC headroom. So the power draw will shoot into the sky, but the performance will hardly benefit. GameBoost is only camouflaging as some kind of beneficial feature, while often being detrimental in several different ways in reality.

MSI Center, that has its own pitfalls, see here. As i stay far away from MSI Center with any of my MSI boards, i couldn't tell you what takes precedence, the BIOS or the tool, but i definitely recommend setting as much as you can right in the BIOS. The whole fan settings are a matter of understanding the principle and then doing some quick testing to apply it. Once you have understood the principle and applied it once, it will become a breeze (no pun intended) to set up in the future. When you re-use the same fans, you can even set up the fan control in a largely identical manner on a motherboard of a different brand. They all work with the same PWM percentage values or the same varying voltages.
 
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