BIOS
Our previous Granite Bay-based motherboard didn't exactly distinguish itself in the BIOS department. Let's see if the DFI can do any better.
The main configuration screen allows you to select the multiplier (kind of useless for most of us with locked P4 processors). CPU Vcore, though, can be manipulated to some degree. You're given the option of adding 5 and 10% respectively to the default Vcore of your CPU. Not amazing, but better than nothing.
The 'clock by slight adjust' is DFI's description of the ability to adjust your FSB by 1MHz increments up to 200FSB. A jumper on the board dictates what default FSB you run at (100 or 133). Thankfully, the PCI/AGP bus can be locked at the default 33/66 setting, or can be set to run at 37.5/75 and 44/88 MHz respectively. A little disappointing is the lack of DDR voltage adjustment; there is none.
Although there's no DDR voltage adjustment, the timings can be set to performance-enhancing settings shown above. Just make sure your RAM can handle it. The AGP slot is 8x compliant, but we see a 4x option. There is no method of toggling to 8x.
A few of the options on offer. Note that RAID is turned on / off by hardware jumper. The rest of the BIOS is exactly what you'd expect from a current motherboard. Being one that is interested in overclocking, I'd really have liked some DDR voltage.
