GT overclocking in bios (Z68A-GD55(G3)), what does it do??

Hello people,
I read the friggin manual five times now and googled my back off, but nobody seems to know what it does.
After flashing with the latest beta .N49, the official one that was released after this one, .N40, somehow vanished from MSI website, I noticed that option in the OC section of the bios.
I can change the value from 18 - 30, disable/enable it and its currently (standard) enabled with a mp of 22 giving me a 1100MHz frequency of...yeah what exactly, thats what I like to know  .
Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, nice to know, but why didnt they mention that in the manual then (retorical question, since we are all users here)
Thanks for the tip.

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    I tried to connect monitor to integrated graphics's output and it works. I don't see my Radeon 6950 recognized in Device manager in windows.
    Also, I tried my old Radeon 3870 on this MB. Result is the same, but it works fine on my second PC.
    Virtu Technology - Disabled
    Initiate Graphics Adapter - PEG
    I haven't installed any virtu drivers and bios wasn't updated. Also, I haven't reinstalled my windows, but I don't believe it may cause such problem
    I guess that this is due to integrated GPU and it should be disabled somehow.
    Gurus, Can you help me?
    Thanks in advance.

    Quote from: Immortaliz on 31-January-12, 03:53:13
    Hello again!
    Had a conversation with a guy from service center and he said that most likely there is broken south bridge in my MB and they can't help me with this.
    And warranty won't apply for this MB anymore because I had broken socket :(
    Just wondering does southbridge somehow responcible for GPU?
    I thought that northbridge is responcible for this and it's in CPU. So it seems to me that they don't really know what the problem is.
    Any ideas?
    Thanks in advance!
    I returned a Z68 GD65 G3 because some of the pins were slightly bent.  I observed when I did my initial inspection of the MB just a few days after I bought it.  Returned it to store withing the 30 day return period. 
    Since your MB is now out of warranty  you may be able to slightly bend that pin to match the others.  Just be very careful. (Do at your own risks). 
    Are you able to get a hold of a a different cpu that has a igpu and see if you can get the display working without the video card?
    I have read about problems with the display not working.  The latest BIOS should have all that fixed.

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