AT best i'm lucky it hasn't exploded yet. I cannot Recommend NZXT's Kraken, AT ALL. I will keep the HDD in some manner, but am looking at the intel 750 and samsung. I love the HDD because its oldschool, i love the sounds of the disks, but SSD is the way of the future. I'm not throwing in the towel on ths MSI board, and I am a strong Intel supporter. I've done a lot of research and playing with my rig, so i understand its highs and lows, and what will make it work better. I wish it did not say godlike, but I do find myself punishing people on CSGO in a disgusting manner, but I will be sure to copy this review and paste it around on the forums I have been reading and so on. I'm impressed with the quality of armor, and do enjoy the lights. Overall the board has taken tremendous wear in the time it is used, and has held up. But you're right its in the RootKit, and I don't run Gaming APP on OC because it fucks with OC GENIE, (WHICH ALSO BLOWS) I Don't use that, I disabled it. and Since troubleshooting it this time, I've recieved minimal errors with Gaming APP as well. I've reformatted since previous benchmarks, due to AFK.
I am struggeling to install Intel ME drivers right now. I am over all very satisfied with all the hardware i've purchased, including MSI's God Like Motherboard, but have been let down tremendously by Software, intel included. I only have 1 CPU fan enabled, I had hooked a case fan upto CPUfan2 to see if it would help and did not. Due to 4pin pwr connector, tried adapter today. Garbage: Cam software sucks, pump is constant at 2800 rpm and cpu fans can be controlled but not without affecting pump. Temps on CPU never reached about 55C GPU 55C Max and same with board temps.
It ran ARK on pretty full tilt on a 60hz monitor at about 40fps with a 970gtx overclocked to like 1500hz. This was done when I reformatted, installed basic driver necessities, and disabled all windows updates. I've been able to achieve a stable overclock of 4.2 ghz at 1.3v. I also have a Godlike Board, i7-5820k, I run windows 7 sp1 on HDD WD10krpm, and am going to be reformatting on an SSD with windows 8.1 per MSI support reccomendation.