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MSI is looking for talented designers to give a unique look & feel to the UEFI BIOS.

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UEFI based ClickBIOS is the next generation BIOS. No more boring legacy BIOS text screens, but a Graphical User Interface with mouse support and the flexibility to add applications. MSI already showed what UEFI is capable of with the premiere of the P35 EFINITY in 2008. Later MSI introduced three P45 models with UEFI based ClickBIOS. ClickBIOS is necessary for the future, not only when it comes to the enhanced boot times, multi-language support, but also future proof features like large 3 Terabyte hard drive support.


Do you have what it takes to design an interface that matches the next-gen technology?

Show us what would make a great Click BIOS interface and win prices! Submit your creative design before December 31st (12:00pm GMT) and see if your submission will be the favorite of participants, visitors and MSI users.

There are FIVE prizes to be won

First Prize is an, as yet unnamed, "High End P67 Motherboard"
Second Prize is a N470 GTX Twin Frozr II graphics card
Third Prize is a N460 GTX Hawk
Fourth Prize is a MSI P55A Fuzion Motherboard
Fifth Prize is a MSI 870A Fuzion Motherboard

Show off your skills, maybe win a prize and have the bragging rights of designing a BIOS seen by MILLIONS!!!

For Full Details and Entry, visit : http://micro.msi.com/clickbios
 
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Contest period

The Contest will run from November 10, 12:00PM CET 2010 to December 10, 12:00pm CET 2010. Submissions before or after the deadline will be rejected. Submissions will be available for review and voting between December 12th 12:00pm 2010 and December 17th 12:00pm 2010. - From MSI T&Cs :eek:

Could be wrong though.
 
Didn't we have 'graphical' bioses a few years ago, some even had mouse support, and the general opinion was "these suck, give us legacy?"

I know I am in a minority around here, but when it comes to bios settings, I like to get things done, and leave it alone after that..
 
Ceryndrion said:
Didn't we have 'graphical' bioses a few years ago, some even had mouse support, and the general opinion was "these suck, give us legacy?"

I know I am in a minority around here, but when it comes to bios settings, I like to get things done, and leave it alone after that..
Click to expand...
This is my worry, I suspect we will lose a lot of functionality, particularly as regards overclocking when these take off, particularly with the first generation.
 
Jokester said:
This is my worry, I suspect we will lose a lot of functionality, particularly as regards overclocking when these take off, particularly with the first generation.
Click to expand...

If it does take off, we'll end up having to pay a premium for "pro" or "gamer" boards with a legacy interface. Marketing at its best/worst :(
 
Exactly what I thought, if they're trying to make BIOS idiot proof and usable to people who can't operate using keyboard then I can see all the voltage regulations just simply changing to a scroll on the screen, it will all get removed.

And what's the point of allowing to add applications to BIOS?????
What kind of applications?

I guess it's gonna be OC applications that we'll have to pay extra for ...
 
I'm thinking it'll be more along the lines of Asus ExpressGate where you can play mp3s, browse the net etc without having to boot into an OS.
 
What's the point tho ?
I've had it for over a year and didn't use it a single time, it's not like the PC is going to use less power or something and now with win7 and SSDs booting up isn't an issue anymore, takes me around 3-4seconds to wake up from hibernate and I don't even have SSD on this.

Nice, now if only they came up with that idea back in pentium 1 times when you could go for a cup of tea while waiting for your PC to boot up.
 
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