ASRock K7S8XE versus Soltek 75FRN2L ("Golden Flame")
BIOS
The board's BIOS is based on AMI BIOS. Interestingly, to enter the BIOS, the "F2", not the customary "Del" is reserved (albeit a trifle, but annoying one).
Most memory settings are gathered in the "Chipset Configuration" section.
Apart from the main timings (CAS Latency), there is an unheard of number of finer settings which can be tweaked within quite wide ranges.
To simplify setting the timings, there is this special parameter "Dram Timing Configuration" with the "Normal" and "Performance" as the admissible values.
When trying to set the "Performance" value for the Kingston ValueRAM module the system wouldn't load, but with the "Normal" value selected the system demonstrated a not high enough performance level. At the same time, with higher quality modules like Kingston HyperX a stable operation under the "Performance" mode became possible.
Besides, in the BIOS we can select the memory operating frequency. Since the SiS748 chipset supports asynchronous modes of the processor bus and memory bus, the selection of possible options is wide enough:
As for the system monitoring, the respective section of the board's BIOS proved quite scanty: there is only information on the processor/system temperature as well as information on fans speeds and current voltages.
Unfortunately, there are no functions to enable alarm in case the processor gets overheated, or if the fan halts or reduces its rotation speeds. In fact, this is absolutely not an issue for a value board.
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