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Once in the M.I.T., Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker, menu, you find yourself overwhelmed with a whole bunch of settings which seems like they've been thrown there without much thought. This section alone is three page long and has useful tweaking options found in three different sub-menus. The options themselves are quite flexible and offer a wide array of settings. The first third of the page is where all the clock settings are set. The processor comes first, followed by the QPI, then the processor's base clock and, finally, the memory. The clock speeds offered are more than enough to suit everyone.

In this submenu are processor specific options such as Turbo mode, HyperThreading and power saving states.

This is where you can set the uncore clock, which should always be, at minimum, twice as fast as the memory. I'm still not too sure why those required a separate page, it could have been straight onto the main overclocking section, but it's here anyway.

In the Advanced Clock Control section are standard clock controls, if that makes any sense. Below those are some clock skew and fine voltage adjustments, which are nice for getting a couple more MHz out of a processor.

All the memory timings are adjustable by channel which is an interesting feature, but really shouldn't be the default and only way to set them. It gets laborious to go through them one by one when all you want is a simple configuration.

In the Advanced DRAM features submenu are some not so advanced settings which are also found at the top of the previous page. The advanced timings are found in yet another submenu once again separated in three different channels.

At the bottom of the page are the four main voltages one needs to overclock i7 processors. Core voltage, QPI and VTT, IOH and memory. The average overclocker seeking moderate clock increases can settle with those.

The Advanced voltage control submenu provides the more avid enthusiast with some more voltage tweaking.