BIOS

ABIT's stuck by the Award BIOS which they have been using for the past seven years. The same blue screen greets us when entering the BIOS, and all of the overclocking options lie under the Soft menu area which is what ABIT has called its overclocking section for nearly 10 years now.

Buses

External Clock: 200 - 600 in 1MHz Increments

PCIE Frequency: 100 - 200 in 1MHz Increments

Voltages

CPU Core Voltage: 1.3250v to 1.9450v in 0.0125v increments

DDR2 Voltage: 1.8v to 3.0v in 0.05v Increments

CPU VTT: 1.2v to 1.235v in 0.035v increments

ICH 15.v: 1.5v to 2.0v in 0.05v increments

ICH 1.25v: 1.25v to 2.05v in 0.025v increments

Overclocking

While the board did have an impressive array of overclocking options for a mid-range board, its overall result wasn't too impressive. We only managed to hit a stable 496MHz FSB. While most boards will break the 500MHz barrier quite easily these days, this board didn't quite manage to get there.

Important Editor Note: Our maximum overclocking result is the best result we managed in our limited time of testing the motherboard. Due to time constraints we weren't able to tweak the motherboard to the absolute maximum and find the highest possible FSB, as this could take days to find properly. We do however spend at least a few hours overclocking every motherboard to try and find the highest possible overclock in that time frame. You may or may not be able to overclock higher if you spend more time tweaking, or as new BIOS updates are released. "Burn-in" time might also come into play if you believe in that.