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The BIOS

The board uses a nice standard Award BIOS, however I ran into a problem with the BIOS originally loaded into the board - the board would not even POST with the Corsair PC2-8888 modules I normally use for motherboard testing.

Fortunately using some PC2-5400 modules I downloaded and flashed the latest BIOS, and upped the memory voltage to what the 8888's expected.

I really like how the latest BIOS puts the "Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker" menu as the first option. As with other Gigabyte motherboards, pressing "CTRL-F1" enables other tweaking options.

The MIT menu does not quite fit on one screen, you have to scroll down to see the last two options.

Pretty much anything you need to overclock is here; processor clock speed, multiplier, memory speed, memory timings, PCI speed, HyperTransport channel width and speed, processor, memory chipset, PCIe and HyperTransport voltages are all tweakable.

The "Standard CMOS Features" menu is pretty standard.

The individual drive screens are pretty basic, but really, nothing else is needed.

The "Advanced BIOS Features" is another useful screen, here you can enable/disable some more of the processor features and control the boot process.

The "Advanced Chipset Features" let's you control HyperTransport, PCIe and SpreadSpectrum functions.

HT Controls live here.

Interesting - you can enable/disable PCIe 2.0 speeds on an individual slot basis.