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Next up is the Advanced tab where seven submenus are displayed, some more interesting than others.

First up is the CPU Configuration page. It displays various informations on the processor including clock speed and cache. The main purpose of this section is to enable, or disable, power saving features such as SpeedStep and C1E.

Onboard Devices Configuration is self-explanatory, it lets the user enable or disable the integrated components like audio, LAN and FireWire. Asus also gives a neat option, Onboard Device, which can be set to Standard, for day to day usage, or disabled. The latter automatically disables everything except the LAN port. This is useful to easily get a few more points out of various benchmarks.

The LCD Poster and LED Control submenu let's the user customize what is displayed on the LCD Asus bundles with RoG motherboards. It's possible to simply display the current time or current temperatures or even voltages. For the last two choices, the LCD will cycle through the list and loop back indefinitely.

There isn't much of anything to customize in the Power tab. However, the Hardware Information submenu provides a complete look at the computer's current status

In here, one can take a look at the current voltages, which are more or less precise but give a rough idea. It's also possible to monitor temperatures and fan speeds. The last menu, Fan Speed Control gives the option to let the motherboard automatically control the fan's speed or to set them to a certain speed.

The Boot tab is nothing out of the ordinary, this is where, as usual, the user chooses which device to boot from and in what order.

In the Tools tab, the EZ Flash utility is used to update the BIOS from a floppy, USB or hard drive or even a CD. Asus O.C. Profile is pretty neat, it allows the user to save BIOS configurations so you don't have to type them back in every time you clear the CMOS. TweakIt batch file acts as a digital notebook.

Here's what the TweakIt Batch File page looks like. One can save most of the important settings modified during overclocking and load them at a later time. Those are never cleared, even after a BIOS update.

Finally, the Exit tab is where the journey in the BIOS ends. You can either save the settings or revert back to defaults.