Hey all,

For reference, this is on a MSI Gaming Pro Carbon X370 (BIOS: 7A32v14) with a 1700 and 2x8GB of Trident Z RGB @3200MHz.

I've been having abnormal performance in a few games, so I was tweaking things in my system yesterday to try and compensate. Biggest one was in Warframe, game would randomly dip down into ~40fps territory but it didn't seem like the system was being overly stressed. One core would get pushed to 100% and the rest would just kinda sit there. I honestly chalk a lot of it up to the game itself as it's never been the best optimized, but I still wanted to do something about it.

So, feeling frustrated, I decided to tweak things in the bios a bit to see if it would help because why not. Before I got there, I finally pay attention to the big red button in the upper right corner. Says Game Boost. ...Fuck it, click the button, restart. Much better performance in games. Problem areas in Warframe mentioned earlier practically nonexistent (still dips below 60, but more akin to 55 rather than 40.)

Best I can tell, it bumped my base clock up to 3.4GHz, but I don't see much else beyond that. I wouldn't figure a .4GHz clock bump would help that much, so I'm guessing Game Boost did something else as well. Does anyone have an idea of the full scope of what the Game Boost button controls?

EDIT: Fixed some fat-fingering of numbers.

EDIT2: I think a lot of my issues were based around Cool and Quiet, now that I think about it. System was never particularly stressed, but when I put together my Ryzen system, I never thought to disable it. Game Boost appears to disable that as well as apply a 400MHz upclock, so that would explain my performance increase a bit more.

I am wondering if enabling game boost in the motherboard BIOS is a good idea? I've heard people say everything from "it will double your frames" to "it will lower your frames and damage your components".

Should I enable Game Boost with my setup? MSI Z690 Carbon, MSI 3090 Ventus (4090 Gaming X Trio being shipped to me right now), i9 12900k, 32 gigs DDR5 6000mhz RAM, Corsair RMX 1000, 2x 970 evo 1TB.