BIOS
ABIT add their µGuru set of enhancements to a standard AWARD BIOS, endowing it with hardware control features via the small µGuru chip on the bottom right of the board. Some of the adjustment is doing inside the main BIOS interface, such as those to control the memory controller on the i915P bridge, but almost everything else takes place inside the new SoftMenu replacement. Again, the BIOS on the AG8 is absolutely identical to that on the AA8, bar the memory time adjustment section, so I'll cut and paste again.
Memory timing adjustment on the AG8 runs to the usual CL-Tp-Trcd-Tras timing group.
CPU voltage adjust goes from boot voltage to 1.9250V, in 0.0250V steps, but you can't adjust to any voltage below the the boot voltage defined by the CPU.
You get memory voltage adjust from 2.5V, the JEDEC base voltage for DDR DRAMs, all the way to 3.2V, for those toasty overclocks and mutant sticks of Kingston HyperX.
Chipset voltage gets a +37% adjust range, all the way up to 2.05V, from the 1.5V default.
The BIOS can also keep track of how many times the board has been powered up or rebooted. It also records uptime to single hour resolution.
Finally, you also get a range of EQ adjustments and monitoring pages, courtesy of the ABIT EQ section in the µGuru menu.
