BIOS

 

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The BIOS is where we now focus our attention toward and Foxconn has gone with the tried and true Award Modular v6 BIOS which is what we are pretty well all used to these days.

Quantum BIOS is where all overclocking features can be found .

 

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Buses

CPU Base Clock (MHz): 133MHz to 500MHz in 1MHz increments

Voltages

CPU Voltage: +10mV to +1260mV in 0.2mv Increments

CPU VTT (UnCore): +20mV to +1260mV in 0.2mv Increments

1.8 PLL Voltage: 1.7v to 2.405v in various increments

CPU Clock Amplitude Control: 0.7v to 1.0v in .01v Increments

DRAM Voltage: 1.5v to 2.86v in various Increments

X58 IOH Core Voltage: 1.1v to 2.36v in 0.02v Increments

X58 IOH VCCA 1.1 Voltage: 1.108v to 2.207v in various Increments

X58 IOH VCCA 1.5 Voltage: 1.502 to 1.8v in Various Increments

Overclocking

Overclocking the board was pretty easy. Foxconn gives you quite a bit of voltage tweaking. However, there are a few missing, so it wasn't possible to really get into it. And with our limited time on each board, we managed to get an impressive 175MHz BCLK out of the BloodRage which took the CPU to 3.5GHz. This makes the board the third highest clocking board we've tested, just behind the ASUS offerings of the P6T and the Rampage II.

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.