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DDR2 or DDR3: MSI P35 Platinum Combo Mainboard Review (page 11)

Category: Mainboards

by Doors4ever

[ 02/29/2008 | 04:37 PM ]

Dual CoreCenter

Dual CoreCenter utility may have got its name for the ability to control and manage not only and mainboard but also the graphics card operation. Only a small icon in the Windows system tray next to the clock indicates that this utility is working. If you roll the pointer over it, you will get a CPU temperature report. The program window is pretty compact:

By default it reports CPU temperature, FSB frequency and resulting CPU frequency. By clicking VGA button you can see graphics card temperature and frequency. There are five preset profiles: AV, Game, Office, Silence and Cool. “~” adjusts the system response to workload increase or reduction. BY pressing User Profile button, you will get a window where you can select one of the three available additional user profiles:

You can adjust parameters only in the user profiles, the default profile settings cannot be changed.

The buttons in the lower part of the main window will take you to the current temperature readings:

…to the fan rotation speed adjustment page:

…to the page where you can adjust processor Vcore, Vmem and chipset North Bridge voltage:

…to the page where you can overclock the CPU or graphics card:

D.O.T. button allows speeding the system up or slowing it down by up to 25%:

Overall, Dual CoreCenter program didn’t strike us as the most convenient to set up and use. There was no option to disable the program launch on Start-up, so we had to remove it because it failed to manage the rotation speed of a fan with a three-pin power connector.