BIOS
The BIOS is AMI style, much like ASUS employ in their current range. The more you use it, the more you warm to it, but it's not AWARD-style friendliness by any means. Obviously, the tweaking action happens in the Advanced section.
Advanced Chipset Features contains all the goodies.
Notable inclusions are a fixed 8X multiplier mode on unlocked or partially unlocked ES CPUs, giving you 8X as a choice, for high bus speed running. Multiplier adjust is also available in the range your CPU supports, in this case 12x to 16x for the HEXUS 3.2ES.
PCI and AGP bus locking, PAT mode adjust, memory timing adjust and voltage adjust for all the rails are all present in that section of the BIOS.
2200MHz effective front side bus frequency take your fancy? Yep, that's the sound of the board's clockgen having a heart attack at the thought. We'll test the 300MHz range though, to validate Albatron's box claims.
We've got basic hardware monitoring and memory ratio adjust too, to assist the tweaker in his endeavours.
BIOS Summary
A decent, full featured BIOS that doesn't let you down in too many areas. Criticism could be levelled at the BIOS for lack of resolution in your voltage choices for Vcore, Vdimm and Vagp. Vcore especially could do with a little more choice than just +0.1V, +0.2V and +0.3V. For those overclocks where you experience the law of diminishing returns as far as voltage goes, some intermediate selections would help a lot.Not too bad, but room for definite improvement, given the tweakers angle it appears Albatron wish to aim for with PX875P Pro.
