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Basic BIOS features haven't been forgotten: HDD setup, boot options and CPU features can be altered to the user's own likings.
A second performance menu provides access to some of the more advanced chipset features. In this menu we can change the LDT bus frequency to anywhere between 0 and 9, memory latency control has been added too.
Again lots of options available to please the overclocking minded gamer. Early BIOS software had some bugs here and there, though with the BIOS version we are using (14) most bugs were being fixed. If you look at the tREF option you can see one of the last bugs that has to be fixed, this option tends to auto configure itself while ignoring whatever value is being selected by the user.  Onboard controllers can be activated/deactivated through the BIOS, computer wake-up events can be configured, nothing ground shaking...
The last BIOS menu handles the hardware monitoring. ATX voltage level, fan speed and component temperature can be checked here, you can also configure your fans to speed up once your system passes a certain voltage level.
Overclocking NVIDIA knows their business well; looking at the 600i series chipsets they have spoiled us again with options which allow overclocking your hardware way beyond default speeds. By using the latest available BETA BIOS (14) we could overclock the Front Side Bus up to 1850 MHz (462MHz QDR), that's an increase of 74%! This is with the CPU multiplier lowered to 6x, multiplier 9 didn't allow us to find the maximum stable FSB clock because the CPU would top out to early when being air-cooled.  click image for more details 3800MHz is the maximum stable CPU clock we could obtain with our E6600. This is with only 1,55V (the board tends to under volt a bit when being pushed to the max) on the CPU, more voltage would definitely create more overclocking headroom. In the end we were pleased with our overclock, though some cold boot oddities did occur once we were going for maximum clock and so we did had to fall back to ~1500MHz FSB in our performance tests. We would also like to mention that without the BETA BIOS the board topped out before reaching 1600MHz (400Mhz) FSB.  More reviews in this category can be found below: |
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