BIOS

The BIOS menu is equipped with feature-rich overclocking and tweaking.  The layout and function of the menu is reminiscent to the Abit’s Softmenu BIOS interface.

It offers more advanced settings in the memory department than the previous nForce2 BIOS menus.  The board gives you more ways to tweak and strength your memory timings.  Setting the memory timings to “expert” will give you full access to memory settings.  It also has “Command Per Clock” to further enhance the performance of the memory.  Enabling this boosts performance by approx. 500 points in 3Dmark 2001 and Radeon 9800 class video card.

CPU voltages are available up to 2.0v.

AGP voltages are available up to 1.8v.

Chipset voltages (Vdd) are available up to 1.9v.

Memory voltages are available up to impressive 3.3v.

Multipliers are available from 5x to 22x.

Front Side Bus is available from 100 MHz to 300 MHz and selectable by increments of 1 MHz.

CPU Clock: DRAM clock ratios are selectable. Like all nForce 2 boards, the ratio of 1:1 is recommended for best overall performance.

The monitored voltages in the PC Health Status are:  +3.3v, +5v, +12v, -12v, VBAT, and 5VSB.

The CPU and Memory voltage monitoring is located in the Genie BIOS setting in the main BIOS menu.

AGP Bus frequency is defaulted to Auto, selectable from 50 MHz to 99 MHz.

CMOS Reloaded is one of the most important features of the board.  In the CMOS Reloaded option, it will allow you to backup your saved CMOS settings.  If the system fails to boot during the overclocking attempts, the saved CMOS configuration can be loaded and will retrieve all your settings.  There are up to 4 programmable CMOS setting configurations and each of them can be renamed like a picture shown below.  The saved CMOS Reload settings do not get deleted when you reset your CMOS.