BIOS
BIOS talk will be kept to a minimum since there's nothing really new to talk about as far as differences between 2.0 Deluxe and any other nForce2 Ultra 400 based boards go, BIOS wise.The two interesting sections are the Advanced Chipset Features section and the Hardware Monitoring section. ACF gives you access to CPU frequency settings, memory timings and various voltage adjustments. Here's a pair of shots showing you the top and bottom halves of the scrolling page. Memory timings are the benchmarked values, picked up correctly from the SPD on the Corsair modules. Voltages that you'll see are the maximum values available (apart from Vagp), 1.85V Vcore and 2.8V Vdimm. I'd have liked to have seen 1.9V and 2.9V as choices for those respective voltages, to match DFI and ABIT BIOS choices recently.
Mmm, I love ASUS BIOS colour schemes, blue on grey and harder to navigate than the usual AWARD fare you see on most motherboards. Here's the hardware monitoring section. Notice Q-Fan for motherboard-based adjust of fan speed, based on reported CPU temperature. It's a good feature and works quite well, enable it if you aren't relying on full fan speed for a massive overclock.
