Included Software

One of the first bits of software I fired up was the Nahimic audio software. Sitting in TeamSpeak and using the MSI Nightblade MI2 to play a bit of Battlefield 4, I noticed some static in my headphones, so I checked to see whether the software was at fault and it wasn't. Since audio performance in general is largely subjective, and every person's ears are slightly different, I don't have much else to say about Nahimic. So then I fired up the only other bit of software that installed, MSI's Gaming Center, which sits as the front page for a bunch of functions.


Immediately, I hopped over to the MSI Gaming App section, looking to see if it was fully integrated into the Gaming Center software, but when I clicked the button an introduction to the Gaming App launched, before the familiar MSI GAMING App that is included with both MSI GAMING motherboards and GPUs launched.


All I found enabled in the MSI GAMING App were some GPU controls. At least you can get the most out of your MSI GAMING GPU, but those who installed a "K"-series CPU won't find anything of use here.


There are controls for the front panel LEDs, called Mystic Light. There are a few different modes you can choose, and a huge numbers of colors as well, so if you don't like MSI's normal black and red, maybe you'd want to pick pink! The MSI GAMING logo lights up as well when you power up the MSI Nightblade MI2, but the color does not change. It would have been nice if it did, but it is completely OK with me that it doesn't!


There's also a simple system-monitoring page with a rather interesting selection of information. I was hoping to find some clock and voltage reporting, but found a whole bunch of other things instead. You get disk-, memory-, CPU-, and GPU-load meters and two panels dedicated to the network's connectivity options; one for wired and one for wireless.