Gigabyte 8N-SLI Royal (nVidia nForce4) SLI Intel Edition
BIOS
The BIOS of Gigabyte 8N-SLI is built on the Award BIOS Phoenix version.
On pressing the "Ctrl+F1" key combinations, you get access to the memory latency timings gathered in the "MB Intelligent Tweaker" section, or "M.I.T" for brief:
Apart from a number of memory latency settings, the user can choose the memory frequency:
The frequency values are listed in the x4 form, which makes the choice a bit difficult. You can also change the multiplier of the HyperTransport bus:
We found no special issues of compatibility to memory modules. In particular, Kingmax DDR2-533 modules were running trouble-free.
Now move on to the section to do with the system monitoring.
The board keeps track of the processor's current temperature and the rotational speed of the three fans. In my view, that is an extremely scanty selection of sensors and monitoring features for high-end boards. Besides, the speed of the processor cooler can be set dependent on the CPU temperature with the Smart FAN feature.
Also, note the support for power-saving and security features embedded in the most recent steppings of Prescott and Prescott 2M cores.
In particular, that is support for the C1E mode
and the Execute Disable Bit feature (or NX-bit)
Also, notable is that the BIOS settings can be displayed in several languages:
Finally, the board offers support for the DualBIOS technology:
This technology allows experimenting safely with the BIOS, e.g. changing the POST screen image with the FaceWizard utility.
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