EVGA X79 FTW X79 Motherboard Review

Having not played with an EVGA board before, we was not sure what or of BIOS interface to expect, but we did know that it was a UEFI BIOS at that.

On entry to the UEFI BIOS, the first page that comes up is an overview of how everything is running within the system, including temperatures, speeds and voltages. Along the top of the screen we can see that everything is split into 7 key areas, each of which will have sub-sections for particular areas of the board and their functions.

All navigation throughout the BIOS is done via the keyboard which is a shame as one would have expected a GUI interface on a board of this type and nature.

The advanced tab contains settings to the onboard devices, SATA, USB and also a more detailed PC status.

The chipset tab gives more refined control over the configuration of the board for example the PCI-e slot speeds.

The overclocking pages are the ones where most users will find themselves spending the majority of their time. Everything is confined within one main page and 3 sub pages for the memory, CPU config, and BCLK. All the current voltages shown are on a live giving to the second status of each control point. We will see in further pages how the board is able to overclock our CPU towards its upper limits.

The boot page holds no surprises to what we would normally find under this category.

Last of all, the save tab not only lets us do the obvious, but also allows the user to override the pre-defined boot drive that they have set in the boot tab and load or save up to four profiles for different overclocks or other system configurations for recall at a later stage.

Once we got used to the somewhat odd change of the F5 and F10 keys to F3 and F4 respectively, the BIOS was quick and easy to navigate around without a fuss.