Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI (nVidia nForce4 SLI) MoBo Review
BIOS
The BIOS of Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI is built on the Award BIOS Phoenix version.
On pressing the "Ctrl+F1" key combination you get access to the undocumented "Advanced Chipset Features" section:
Inside it, apart from a number of memory latency settings, the user can choose the required memory frequency
as well as multipliers for the HyperTransport bus:
We found no special issues of compatibility to memory modules. However, when overclocking the system in the synchronous mode the maximum frequency of OCZ PC3200 400512ELDCPER2-K Platinum rev2.0 and Patriot PC3200 XBL modules proved to be less than that on Asus A8N-SLI.
Now move on to the section to do with the system monitoring.
The board is able monitoring the temperature of the processor and system, voltage levels, as well as the rotational speeds of the three fans. Besides, the speed of the processor cooler can be set dependent on the CPU temperature with the Smart FAN feature.
As to the Cool'n'Quiet feature, the board does support it. However, we found the respective item in the BIOS settings. Finally, the board offers support for the DualBIOS technology:
This technology allows experimenting safely with the BIOS, e.g. changing the POST screen boot-up image with the FaceWizard utility.
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