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The BIOS is your usual AWARD fair, as found on almost all AMD motherboards shipped today. Leadtek obviously add their own tweaks, called X-BIOS. A few shots of the BIOS should cover things, firstly a shot of the main tweaking part of the BIOS that shows the benchmarked settings.
Being an Ultra 400 version of the chipset, we have official support for 200MHz bus processors, as shown above. However, if you're feeling brave and you have an unlocked processor and some nice memory, you can try setting this...
Apologies for the blurry nature of the shot, seeing 300MHz front side bus as an option on an AMD board made me all weak at the knees.
CPU Vcore selections run all the way from 1.1V to 2.0V on any processor you choose to put in the socket, here's the proof of the top end of the scale.
Vagp adjust is present and correct, should you wish to adjust it.
Finally, BIOS shot wise, the chipset voltage adjustment.
As booted up first time, 1.9V was the selected option, and therefore the chosen setting throughout all the testing.
A good BIOS, easy to navigate, containing all the options you'll need to make the most of the board, from ACPI settings, hardware monitoring and protection and the all important voltage, front side bus and memory adjustments.
Thumbs up there, it caters for the tweaker in almost every way. The only thing that's missing is memory voltage adjust. Like the K7NCR18G Pro, that's down to a pair of jumpers near the memory slot and you get 2.5V to 2.8V as settings. The only let down so far.
The manual is typical Leadtek reliability. Easy to read and navigate, without being overtly extravagent or confusing, it's just how a manual should be. No Tolstoi, but no Tellytubbies either.
On to the layout.
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