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Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI (LGA 1151) Motherboard Review

BIOS and Overclocking


Most motherboard manufacturers nowadays offer multiple BIOS styles for users to enter and tweak the system settings. The latest implementation of the BIOS type is the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) BIOS, which is a simpler version to view and interact with. Each manufacturer has a different style and each motherboard could have a different colour style.

Gigabyte don’t offer the EZ BIOS with this board, possibly to reduce costs and make the . The first page you are presented with is the MIT page; it hosts everything you will want to increase the performance of your computer including CPU and memory frequency.

System information is a simple motherboard information screen, displaying motherboard model and BIOS versions.

The BIOS features page has all of information regarding the BIOS and operating systems. This screen allows you to fine tune your system before the BIOS loads to give the best possible experience.

Peripherals is the page where you will go to look at and tweak the information regarding anything you have plugged in into the USB, SATA or PCI ports.

The Chipset screen is likely to be one of the lesser used screens thanks to how well the chipset is already set up. However, you can tweak certain features such as the Audio.

Power Management could be misinterpreted. It doesn’t include the voltages to the components, rather the overall power features of the motherboard such as power on features and resume by alarms.

The Save and Exit screen it probably the only screen that is familiar between all motherboards. Here you can choose to save or discard your settings and manually boot into another drive if you are performing a task such as a new operating system install.

Overclocking 

Overclocking on this board was an absolute breeze, a simple BIOS trip and multiplier increase achieved a stable 4.8GHz overclock. The voltage monitor is still a bit buggy, but this is set to be updated in the next CPU-z revision.

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