MSI
P55-CD53 Intel Socket LGA1156 ATX Motherboard

Overview

OC Genie with Super Unlock

Push to overclock in 1 second

MSI’s original invention, a fully automatic, smart overclocking chip. It will automatically detect the optimal settings for your individual system Super Unlock= OC Genie + Auto Unlock CPU Ratio Support Intel Unlocked CPU (Core i7-875K & Core i5-655K)

Advantages

• 300% higher than Turbo Boost
• Overclock 4 core B-clock & Ratio by OC Genie
• Automatically overclock CPU performance to 4GHz

DrMOS

1 Phase DrMOS > 4 Phase Traditional MOSFET

Advantages

• High Efficiency: Up to 96%
• Efficiency Increase: +38.3%
• Lower Power Loss: -4.01W (64% Max Saving)

APS

Benefits:

• Saving Power under Variable Loading.
• Power Usage More Efficiency.

Features

1 Sec Overclocking

• Overclocking in few seconds
• Automatically detect best overclocking configuration
• Optimized for best system performance

Power Saving

• APS is Active Phase Switching is complete function to Control Power Demand With Switcing Dynamically, it’s for CPU.
• Saving Power under Variable Loading.
• Power Usage More Efficiency.

Measure Voltage

• Provide CPU VCORE, VTT, DDR, PCH Voltage measure value
• Key part's voltage measurement for all end-users

Simply Update

• Faster and Flexible and instant
• If BIOS crash, it still can boot from USB Drive
• Update BIOS from USB Drive by M-Flash Fucntion

Max Lifespan

• Longer lifespan than electrolytic capacitors
• Endurable to operation under higher frequency & temperature
• Avoid exploding capacitors to cause mainboards failure

User Friendly

• Functions designed with button to be easy use.
• Help power-users tweaking process in-chasis enviornment
• Onboard SATA ports are stacked on the mainboard to avoid mechanical issue with giant graphic cards like 8800 Ultra.

Live Update

Live Update 4 is a single utility software that automatically checks BIOS, driver and utility updates and installs for you , which can save your time for searching and lower the risk while updating.

DrMOS

• Excellent energy-saving capability and offers high-computing performance.
• Provide superior energy-saving function and maintain an ultimate low temperature operation.
• Comes with three incredible features.

Realtime OC

• Instant CPU Base Clock adjustment
• Hardware low latency control
• Attain hardware overclocking performance at all circumstances

i-Charger

• Universal charger utility for Apple iPad, iPhone, iPod
• Compatible with all MSI Mainboards

Safely Plug-in

• With the ESD dual-current protection chip, USB Safeguard can ideally protect your motherboard from the potential damage caused by static electricity when inserting USB devices.

Lossless

• The loss-less content protection technology with full-rate audio enjoyment from Blue-ray Disc
• Support for 24-bit / 192kHz sample rate offers high quality digital decoders and speakers
• support 7.1 channels playback, plus 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the front panel stereo outputs

MSI Advanced Live Update Online

The MSI Live Update online is designed to automatically download and update the BIOS and driver when there’s a new version online. It helps reduce the risk of getting the wrong file and minimize the trouble of searching the files from MSI website.