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The GIGABYTE X58-USB3 motherboard uses the Award BIOS, which has been in use for many years and with motherboards from different manufacturers. The main menu consists of MB Intelligent Tweaker where the overclocking is done, the Standard CMOS Features, the Advanced BIOS Features, Integrated Peripherals, Power Management Setup and PC Health Status.
The Advanced BIOS Settings is where the boot device priority and the boot device order are set. Here is also where the No-Execute Memory Protect and CPUID Values are set. Integrated Peripherals is where the HDD parameters are set including RAID support. Here is also where you enable the USB functions and the audio and LAN controllers.
The MB Intelligent Tweaker menu is split into MIT Current Status, Advanced Frequency Settings, Advanced Memory Settings, Advanced Voltage settings and miscellaneous settings. The Current Status submenu is where the CPU/memory frequencies/parameters are displayed. Advanced Frequency Settings is where you of course change the frequencies of the system. I’ve summarized the available settings in the following chart:
|
Setting |
Range |
|
CPU Clock Ratio |
Dependent on CPU |
|
QPI Clock Ratio |
X36, x44, x48 Slow Mode |
|
Uncore Clock Ratio |
X12-x48 |
|
BCLK Frequency |
100-600 |
|
PCI Express Frequency |
90-150MHz |
|
CPU Clock Drive |
700mv, 800mv, 900mv, 1000mv |
|
PCI Express Clock Drive |
700mv, 800mv, 900mv, 1000mv |
|
CPU Clock Skew |
0ps-750ps |
|
IOH Clock Skew |
0ps-750ps |
|
CAS Latency Time |
5-15 |
|
tRCD |
1-15 |
|
tRP |
1-15 |
|
tRAS |
1-31 |
|
tRC |
1-63 |
|
tRRD |
1-7 |
|
TWTR |
1-31 |
|
TWR |
1-15 |
|
TWTP |
1-31 |
|
TWL |
1-10 |
|
TRFC |
1-255 |
|
TRTP |
1-15 |
|
TFAW |
1-63 |
|
CMD |
1-3 |
|
B2B CAS Delay |
1-31 |
|
Round Trip Latency |
1-255 |
