[section_title title=”BIOS”]
BIOS
When you first load the BIOS, you are greeted with this screen. It gives you an overview of various components within the system and tells you voltages (ignore the CPU voltage, it is reading the ring voltage and not the core voltage), fan speeds and boot options.
Upon entering into the “advanced” section of the BIOS, you’re faced with a few sub menus which contain the settings and options that you would otherwise not find in the basic BIOS that we saw in the initial loaded version. So, without any further ado, let’s see what we can control. There are seven main sections which you can flick through and they’re listed at the top of the screen. Thankfully, ECS introduced a screen capture method (after asking them about it) which makes it a lot easier to show you guys what there is on the BIOS side of things.
Under the advanced tab, you have control over many of the onboard and CPU features.
The chipset section speaks for itself. You have control over the System Agent Configurations as well as the PCH and ME configurations.
In the M.I.B. X section lays the overclocking options for this motherboard. One issue however, which I will go into great detail in the overclocking section, is the CPU ratio setting.
Of course, the memory tab. It reads my TridentX XMP profiles incorrectly but it does insert most of the values that are correct.
Voltages play an important role when you are overclocking so it’s good to see that the options are there. However, as I previously said with the CPU multiplier, I will go into details later about the overclocking experience and why I would have it differently.
Moving along, we have the boot up configuration.
BIOS and system lock down is sometimes a must, depending on where the system is going to be housed. The administrator and user passwords can be configured within the security tab.
Finally, we have the exit tab which allows you to save and exit the BIOS or load default options and so on. The options speak for themselves really.
