Board Software

Software is were we see a huge change in what MSI is offering. All the same tools are here, but rather than dumping a billion shortcuts on to your desktop, you get just a few, the first of which is MSI's App Manager. MSI's App Manager isn't like what other brands call a "manager"; MSI's App Manager really does manage those apps by making sure they are up to date every time it starts and allowing for you to download and automatically update apps with just a couple clicks. I won't go into much detail on individual apps here as they've all been covered on these pages before, but I will say that I'm not a big fan of how Mystic Light works, and MSI has said that it will work towards making it better, so that's good.


I also saw MSI's Dragon Eye and an MSI-branded version of Intel's XTU install themselves and leave shortcuts on the desktop. Dragon Eye lets you watch video while in a game (only certain games are supported), and XTU, well, if you don't know what that is, what rock have you been hiding under!


Lastly, a shortcut to an MSI-skinned version of CPU-Z was also present after the software install. I like seeing MSI support software like this, but I kind of wish these other three tools were inside the App Manager, which is where they rightly belong.