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The Gigabyte bios is a ‘traditional' design, not one of the newer UEFI implementations. That said, it is fully loaded and offers a wealth of fine tuning and overclocking options. Most of the enthusiast audience will be spending the majority of their time in the MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) panel.
Above are a selection of screenshots taken from the bios. We tested the bios with both the Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition and the Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition and there were no problems to report.
Overclocking via this board is as good as any of the other 990FX boards we have tested in the past. With a Noctua NH D14 fitted we managed to push the 980 and 1100T to 4.4ghz and 4.3ghz respectively. These are basically the limits of the specific chips with air cooling and as good as we could expect without moving to high end watercooling or phase change.
Great boards, right up their with ASUS IMHO
Like the colour scheme, very menacing !
I think ill stick with intel, but im interested in bulldozer, will be interesting to see if they can take on Intel at £200 sector.
Phew, I hate seeing a review when I bought something a few days beforehand. thankfully im reassuring. ill post my findings when I get the system built.
(1090t, but planning to bulldozer when available)
I disagree with previous comment. I think gigabyte are better motherboards than ASUS. I have always found them more stable.
good motherboard, I plan to buy this when bulldozer is out.