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The BIOS

Now we are getting somewhere. The BIOS is where its at for tweaking, and this one does not let us down.

First, the boring main menu:

Now for the more interesting Advanced menu - with the most important screen of course being the "JumperFree Configuration" screen:

I was glad to see that Asus did not cripple the overclocking capabilities of this board - board manufacturers tend to limit the overclocking controls in their lower cost / medium cost motherboards in order to "encourage" enthusiasts to buy high-end boards.

Asus did not play that game here, and we have good fine-grained control - about the only dissapointment is not having a few more memory dividers available; if you want really high FSB overclocks you'd better have some really good DDR2 memory.

The rest of the "Advanced" screens are pretty boring.