Looking for MSI Control Center Tutorial for overclocking i7 2600K

Please, I am looking for a Detailed TUTORIAL for overclocking With MSI Control Center an I7 2600K on P67A-GD55 motherboard.
Thank you.

Quote from: Bernhard on 18-October-12, 14:39:08
Intel absolute max is 100C, but for 24/7 continuous temps 70 to 80C under full load is a sensible.
My personal comfort zone is around 70C. I use Prime95 to see where the temps top out. As long as that is 80 or below, I am happy, as I know that no program that I use stresses the CPU 100% all the time.
The only time I made sure that I stayed at 75 max was when I was folding. That pushes the CPU to 100%. I ran my 2600K for one year continuous and the core temps were always between 65 and 75 at 4,5GHz, my core voltage was at around 1,35V. That CPU still has no issue.
Thank you for your feedback.
In fact, I'm looking for how to proceed with MSI Control Center to achieve the optimal settings for overclocking.
What are the steps to increase the multiplier and possibly increase the voltage?
Then, indeed, I think it will be better to enter these overclocking settings in the bios.

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So all new to this control center on my board and was wondering should i use the green power mode in Msi Control center, it looks pretty cool but not sure if i should use it so anyone got any opinions ?.

Quote from: Beavise on 02-February-15, 05:50:02
If i do use the one in the bios what setting should i use ? i'm new to this stuff the boards i had always just did it by itself.
What settings exactly? I have different board, as I said I don't have a disable option, only adjust the settings for target and fan speed in Hardware Monitor which is graphic.
looks like this:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/reviewimages/msi-z87-g45-gigabyte-z87-d3hp/msi-bios6.jpg

MSI control center is reading GPU voltage as 0.000V and frequency NA???

So when i did the re-install of windows and got everything back up and working, windows did not ask me to install the on-board video drivers and i currently have it disabled anyhow as i have pny gtx 660ti that i'm using, but in MSI control center it say GPU voltage 0.000V and if you go mini control center for sensors and temps it say GPU frequency NA, is this the on-board stuff it is looking for or is this for my video card i don't quit understand as my video card is working A ok.

Quote from: Chike on 30-April-15, 07:54:34
This application is old might need an update, I doubt it will.
Enable the IGP, uninstall the software you installed and the driver, reboot and disable it see if the problem go.
What do you need control center for?
You are corect it was not the driver it was just MSI control center freaking out again OMG i'm ditching it i don't need it.

MSI Control Center and 990FXA-GD80

So howdy do!
So, as we all know, the 990FXA-GD80 limits your volts at something like 1.45x or something silly.. some protection nonsense. So overclocking is very limited CPU wise.
So, it came to me that one could use MSI control center where it doesn’t limit the volts, i installed it lastnight, havnt messed with it yet, but you can give the processor alot more volts. Compared to the BIOS.. I know its better to do OC's from the bio's, but, MSI doesnt want us to with this board.
So what are the good, the bad, about doing it from the control center? I have never used it before and would like to give my cpu more juice and higher clocks. Is there a thread about using it somewhere ?
Thank you kind Sirs

From my experience, CC has worked pretty good.
But there are two issues. One is simple; each time you start windows, you have to start CC and apply the overclock.
The second is more complicated. When the CPU was under load and presumably reached a certain temp, CC would nerf the multiplier (from what ever it was to 7x).
This is basically unacceptable in terms of performance. I personally used CC for the longest time, as I would overclock and control the fans with ease.
But, the unstable performance and constant need to apply the profile became unbearable.
I considered selling it and moving to a competitor. But that was to much of a hassle. So I didn't.
After messing around in the bios, I was able to create a work around for controlling the voltages. It's kinda tedious, but not as tedious as applying the overclock each time you enter windows.
I observed when ever I cleared the cmos the voltages were able to be set above 1.44v. So I saved that clean bios via the overclocking profiles.
Then when I entered the bios afterward -- the voltage would be reset to auto. I would then load the overclocking profile. This would reset the voltage to allow over 1.44v again.
When you increase the voltage to 1.5v, you can save that to a new overclocking profile. Then you save the bios, and reset the computer.
The bios wont be entered again, thus, you will be running on that new voltage until you enter the bios again.
When you do enter the bios again, you'll have to load the overclocking profile to access the "unlocked" voltages. Simple bump the voltage to 1.52 and repeat the process. Once your CPU is stable.
You'll never notice your bios had locked the voltage.
I hope that makes sense.
Missxu

MSI Control Center Green Power not Working

Hey guys, Green Power in the MSI Control Center doesn't seem to report any power saving for me- see pic. I have Green Power turned on in the BIOS.

Quote from: NovJoe on 11-July-11, 15:27:19
The interface is to tell you at what speed and voltage that it is regulating from the stock numbers. That is the way of power saving readings.
How come it doesn't report the "Total Power Savings" in watts?

Msi z77a-g45 and msi control center error please replace ME version??

I am getting a error for some reason when i open MSI control center that tells me to Please Replace the ME version, i'm not sure why i'm getting this error out of the blue, is very strange, only thing i did was uninstall intel HD 4000 driver and reinstall it as i was getting a crash, i was using it as a extra monitor. but i don't think that had anything to do with this. I have not used control, center in a while thought i would open it up and now i get this Please replace ME version, i have uninstalled intel management engine and re d-loaded it and reinstalled it from my msi driver page, nothing works please help.

Quote from: Beavise on 18-April-15, 12:46:23
How can i flash to latest one when it is the latest one i have version bios reported as E7752IMS V 2.12 and ME version 8.1.50.1456 i think this is all current is it not?
Quote from: Beavise on 18-April-15, 12:46:23
How can i flash to latest one when it is the latest one i have version bios reported as E7752IMS V 2.12
in your signature you have listed BIOS 2.5
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and ME version 8.1.50.1456 i think this is all current is it not?
basically yes, unless your ME version is somehow corrupted,
or when bios was flashed your ME wasn't updated
if issue persist reflash the bios to the one that i linked you,
its still newest than 2.12 and will include proper ME update,
so you will know that issue isn't there after reflashing
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I have not used control, center in a while thought i would open it up and now i get this Please replace ME version, i have uninstalled intel management engine and re d-loaded it and reinstalled it from my msi driver page, nothing works please help.
other things that you can try before flashing:
install reinstall ME drivers from MSI web for your board:
http://download.msi.com/dvr_exe/intel_me81_win78_xp.zip
you said that you already done this..
you can also try with those ME drivers instead: http://download.msi.com/dvr_exe/intel_me10_mb.zip
and are you using control center 2.5.060
from msi web for your board?: http://www.msi.com/support/mb/Z77AG45.html#down-utility&Win8.1 64
Quote from: Beavise on 18-April-15, 12:51:55
ALso if it's not does your usb flash tool work in WIN8.1 UEFI bios?
yes
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I am getting a error for some reason when i open MSI control center that tells me to Please Replace the ME version, i'm not sure why i'm getting this error out of the blue
sounds like some kind of OS mess or driver mess,
you can try to load some of older windows restore point
assume if you haven't flashed anything and worked fine before

990XA-GD55 Msi Control Center Tempº Problem.

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I've got Z77A-GD65 board and I am using MSI Control Center (version 2.5.053). I have one fan connected to CPU fan header and another fan connected to System Fan1 header on the motherboard. The problem is that while trying to use Smart fan control in MSI Control Center (under Green Power tab) only CPU fan changes speed according to load and the one connected to System Fan1 always stays at the same "System Fan1 Min" set speed. In BIOS the system fan1 is set to auto as all other options are constant speed from 50% to 100%, both fans have 4 wires, so they can change speed. I want both fans to change speed according to CPU load. I know I can use Y (split) cable to connect both fans to the same CPU fan header but I would like to avoid this if possible.
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Hi ,everyone! Yesterday i try press OC Genie button in MSI Control Center 2 and after reboot my computer hangs, video not initializing,
i think motherboard working fine, but problems with BIOS. I tried clear cmos by pressing button on motherboard, but situation not changed.
I,m also took two strips of memory from the motherboard, and boot, after it issued two beeps.
My system configuration
MSI P67A-C45
BIOS 1.13
i5 2500
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I think MSI Contol Center OC Genie section have bugs!!!
Please help!!!
Thanks for reading. Sorry for my English.

I had similar problems. I resolved them removing all pci cards and battery also. Turn pc on without any cards on pci slots until windows boots.
Don't forget to adjust your system time. When windows boot normally I shut down the computer and put all the cards on pci slots. That procedure resolve my problems.
I suspect of the version of my bios. Recently I upgrade my bios version to the 1.E version avaiable on the MSI site.
I hope that you can fix your problem.
Sorry for my bad english. I'm portuguese

MSI Control Center CLI?

Hi,
I could not find much information about the "MSI Control Center" software coming with the MSI mainboard. As far as I understand, it allows to change some voltage and frequency parameters within the OS without actually altering the BIOS. I guess therefore that the changes apply at most to a Windows session and as soon as the computer is restarted the changes are gone. But do you know whether the MSI Control Center process has to be active in order for the changes to be maintained, in other words whether closing the Control Center application restores inmediately the values of the parameters to BIOS values?
In addition, I thought it would be nice to have different profiles stored and activate them depending on the activity performed (transcoding...) and its associated requirements. Do you know whether is possible to invoke the Control Center within the command line with some parameters to load and activate a particular profile?
Thank you very much in advance for the help!

Ok, thank you, Badboy!
So if I understand correctly, there is no manner to automatically load the profile when starting a particular program (such as by invoking in a batch file the "control center" with the right parameter -for instance, "ControlCenter.exe -load c:\MyProfile.pfl", before calling the particular program), and in any case, you don't recommend it because "Control Center" is more a testing program than one to regularly use in order to change parameter values.
I had asked because I though it would be an easier alternative compared to having to get into BIOS to select a profile depending on the type of activity, and also (probably this no longer applies to current systems) because I had heard one should not rewrite the ROM where the BIOS is stored too often because it got damaged with too much writing actions.

[MSI P55-GD65] Different XMP readings from MSI Control Center, CPU-z, BIOS

Hello,
I have a MSI P55-GD65 with a 4 GB Corsair XMP DDR3-1600 CL8 kit (2x2GB, in dual channel configuration),
however I am getting very different readings for the XMP profile from MSI Control Center, CPU-z and the BIOS.
Here is a screenshot from CPU-z and Control Center: http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/2217/xmpv.jpg
The memory is rated at 1.65v for 1600mhz CL8, however control center reports it as being 1.5v, CL9.
CPU-z reports timing rate to be 2T, however when setting the RAM settings to XMP/Auto in the BIOS (which automatically clocks to 1600 mhz, CL8),
timing rate gets set to 1T (which tends to be unstable with CL8).
So my question is: how can I reliably read the XMP information? My bios is the latest version by the way (v1.9).

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the bios readings are almost the same, except that the BIOS sets 1T timing.
The BIOS readings (or: what the BIOS actually sets) is not that important when we talk about SPD/XMP Profiles. When you are in BIOS Setup you should be able to find Memory-Z which does nothing else but reading the SPD/XMP Profiles that are programmed onto the SPD Chip (regardless of what the actual settings are).
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So I'll just use the bios XMP settings but change the timing to 2T and see if that is stable.
Yes. AND: The fact that the BIOS automatically sets the Command Rate to 1T instead of 2T is not okay. Please report this problem to MSI Technical Support: http://support.msi.com/

MSI control center says MSI P67A-C45 is not supported, but it is on the cd?

Hi Guys,
I'm having a very annoying issue with the MSI control center on my MSI P67A-C45.
When I try to run it says the motherboard is not supported, but the software was downloaded from MSI website under my motherboard model.
Another thing is that the Intel Management Engine Driver didn't run the installation saying my computer doesn't meet the minimum requirements? I'm running Windows 7 x86, core i5 2500K and 8GB ram
Any tips?
Regards,
Mephisto

Quote from: Jack on 21-January-11, 15:59:30
Use this version:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=144672.msg1077782#msg1077782
Thanks mate, it worked perfectly =)
Shame MSI puts the wrong file on their website ;/

Overclock through MSI Control Center

Hi, I need help overclocking my i5 2500k manually through Control Center
I used to OC with OC Genie II, but I now wanted to push it more, and require assistance doing so.
Thank you
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i5 2500K
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Windows 8.1 driver problem for vaio control center

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