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BIOS:
BIOS
BIOS is based on Award Phoenix BIOS which is widely used; colouring is a little bit unusual though. Main screen is very ordinary.
BIOS
Advanced Bios Features provides few essential adjustment like HyperThreading and S.M.A.R.T.
BIOS
Memory latency settings, PAT settings and other chipset-orientated settings could be found in Advanced Chipset Features. There is no PAT settings on picture because they become visible only if you use PC3200 memory and there is no way to put PAT on if you have for example PC2700 memory sticks. O.C DRAM Stability increase memory latencies and therefore makes them overclock better, this however decrease performance.
BIOS
Overclocking settings could be found under Frequency/Voltage Control. Here is list.
- FSB: 100-333 MHz
- Memory divider: 2:3-3:2
- AGP/PCI frequency: fixed or multiplier
- Vcore: max 1,6 V
- Vagp: 1,5-1,8 V
- Vdimm: 2,55-2,85 V
BIOS
FSB has wide range of selections and memory dividers are more extensive than on many other i865PE motherboard.
BIOS
AGP/PCI/SRC frequencies are selectable but some why fixed settings didn't work very well. If I set frequency any other setting than Auto/Auto/Auto my Ati Radeon 9800SE didn't work at all. Problem is that if you don't set them manually they raise when you increase the FSB frequency and sooner or later they are too high and system doesn't work right. NVidia GF4 Ti4200 didn't suffer from this problem and system worked all way up to 295MHz FSB, after that system refused to boot.
BIOS
BIOS
Voltage settings are quite limited. Vcore has wide range of 0,858-1,6 V, but maximum voltage is too low for serious overclocking. AGP voltage is adjustable between 1,5 - 1,8 V and although it doesn't help your video card at all it helps chipset because it uses it too. Memory voltage is adjustable between 2,55-2,85 V and although it is certainly not enough for hardcore overclockers it is enough for most of us.
So BIOS has everything that I need but unfortunately few settings are not working at all and some are too limited. Especially overclocking is hard because of narrow voltage ranges and nonworkable AGP/PCI/SRC settings. It was also really annoying that there was no way to enable "PAT" when I used PC3000 memories. I tested my PC3500 memory sticks too but they were unstable even at default settings so I didn't have any way to drive benchmarks using "PAT" which seriously reduces results. BIOS is weakest point of this motherboard.
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