MSI Click BIOS 4 is a clunky name for the UEFI set-up screen that works very smoothly. Once you have hammered the Del key to enter set-up you can navigate Click BIOS 4 using either your mouse or keyboard. There are three enormous buttons on either side of the screen with an even larger MSI dragon logo in the middle.
M-Flash is the section where you update the BIOS using a USB flash drive, however our board arrived with the latest BIOS already installed.
Settings handles the basic stuff, such as where your SATA devices are connected however there is a more visual way of checking your hardware.
The Board Explorer button shows a picture of the motherboard and as you click on areas such as the memory, CPU, I/O panel or SATA you'll see how your PC is set up.
In some contexts this might seem like froth but the generic quick start guide tells you nothing worth knowing and the user manual could do with a photo or two to sit alongside the raft of line drawings. This makes Board Explorer a very useful way to check you have indeed plugged everything together correctly.
Hardware Monitor reports temperatures, fan speeds and voltages and gives you slider controls to adjust fan speeds and target temperatures.
No doubt you'll want to spend some time in the OC (Over Clocking) section of the BIOS. You'll find all of the settings that you expect to see however most of the voltage settings are relative rather than absolute. For example if you want to adjust the CPU voltage to 1.20V you first need to establish the current voltage and then add 0.20V to achieve the desired goal.
It's not exactly the slickest way to adjust your settings but it does work fairly successfully. On the plus side you don't actually need to change many of the settings to overclock an AMD FX, as we shall see in a short while.