BIOS
MSI employ their tried and tested Click BIOS 5 with the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC. The Click BIOS 5 is thoroughly well thought out, with a clear sense of where to go. The mouse and keyboard support are also fantastic.
When using the BIOS in “EZ Mode”, which can be toggled via F7, it’s a case of clicking options which you want to change or you can view clock speeds and temperatures. It’s also possible to enable your DDR4 XMP memory profile to extract the advertised performance from your memory kit.
However, when flipped to the Advanced Mode, we’re given a plethora of options, much like most BIOS suites, but we’d argue that the MSI is best laid out and the easiest to operate. Considering this is an AMD B450 board, we’re impressed with the ability of the overclocking options. The X470 Gaming M7 AC that we tested in April was equipped to the same level but costs almost twice as much on the shelves. We’ll see how the hardware keeps up compared to the big brother, but we’re certainly happy with the BIOS.
Overclocking
After having a good mess about with the BIOS, tweaking vCore settings and looking at LoadLine Calibration settings, we decided to go with a 1.42v vCore. We know this is safe for our CPU from previous testing. We aimed for 4.35GHz at first, which is a known quantity on our Ryzen 7 2700X, which we managed on the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC.
Unfortunately, even pushing 1.45v through the CPU, we couldn’t get 4.35GHz to be stable. So we backed down to 1.42v again and tried for 4.30GHz.
Eventually, after a 2 hour stress test, we were happy with the stability of our overclock and went ahead with the Cinebench test.
We noticed an improvement from 1790, which was the lowest we’ve had from our 2700X at stock speeds, all the way up to 1925. This is a whisker from the 1944 result we managed on the MSI X470. It seems those large heatsinks on the power phase are worthwhile.
MSI employ their tried and tested Click BIOS 5 with the B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC. The Click BIOS 5 is thoroughly well thought out, with a clear sense of where to go. The mouse and keyboard support are also fantastic.
When using the BIOS in “EZ Mode”, which can be toggled via F7, it’s a case of clicking options which you want to change or you can view clock speeds and temperatures. It’s also possible to enable your DDR4 XMP memory profile to extract the advertised performance from your memory kit.
However, when flipped to the Advanced Mode, we’re given a plethora of options, much like most BIOS suites, but we’d argue that the MSI is best laid out and the easiest to operate. Considering this is an AMD B450 board, we’re impressed with the ability of the overclocking options. The X470 Gaming M7 AC that we tested in April was equipped to the same level but costs almost twice as much on the shelves. We’ll see how the hardware keeps up compared to the big brother, but we’re certainly happy with the BIOS.
Overclocking
After having a good mess about with the BIOS, tweaking vCore settings and looking at LoadLine Calibration settings, we decided to go with a 1.42v vCore. We know this is safe for our CPU from previous testing. We aimed for 4.35GHz at first, which is a known quantity on our Ryzen 7 2700X, which we managed on the MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC.
Unfortunately, even pushing 1.45v through the CPU, we couldn’t get 4.35GHz to be stable. So we backed down to 1.42v again and tried for 4.30GHz.
Eventually, after a 2 hour stress test, we were happy with the stability of our overclock and went ahead with the Cinebench test.
We noticed an improvement from 1790, which was the lowest we’ve had from our 2700X at stock speeds, all the way up to 1925. This is a whisker from the 1944 result we managed on the MSI X470. It seems those large heatsinks on the power phase are worthwhile.
