XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking

Author: Ben Sun · 08-05-2008 · Category: Motherboards

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XFX uses a modified version of the American Megatrends AMIBIOS for their nForce 750a SLI board. The board BIOS is split into Main, Advanced, Boot, Security, Power, JUSTW00T and Exit submenus. The Main menu has the System Overview including System Information, the various drives and SATA Ports detected and the USB Device menu.

Advanced Settings has CPU Configuration, Chipset, Onboard Devices and PCIPnP menus. The CPU Configuration menu is where you turn on GART Error Reporting, Microcode Updating, Secure Virtual Machine Mode, Cool ‘n’ Quiet, and ACPI SRAT Mode. It also displays the CPU name, which revision, cache amounts, speed and whether the CPU is unlocked.

The Chipset menu is where you enable Hybrid SLI, SLI, the Primary Graphics Adapter, the integrated graphics and external VGA selection, the IGPU Frame Buffer Detect and the IGPU Frame Buffer size. Note that you need to set jumpers in order to enable true SLI support. Also setting Hybrid SLI to Enabled automatically disables SLI support, sets Internal VGA first, Both exist and IGP, IGPU to Auto and the Frame buffer memory to 256MB.

The overclocking menus are set in the JUSTW00T menu. The settings available for the overclocking are summarized in this chart:


XFX nForce 750a BIOS settingsRange
VIDAuto, 0.800V-1.550V in 0.025V increments
CPU Voltage Auto, 1.000v-1.450v in 0.050v increments
SB Voltage Auto, 1.000v-1.450v in 0.050v increments
DRAM Voltage +0.05v-+0.35v in 0.05v increments
Chipset Voltage 0.030v-0.090v in 0.030v increments
SB to K8 (CPU) Linkwidth 4/4, 8/8, 16/16 (up/down)
SB to K8 (CPU Frequency) Auto, 200MHz-2600MHz in 200MHz increments
CPU overclocking Auto, AutoL, AutoM, AutoH 200-400 in 1MHz increments
CPU PLL Voltage Auto, 1.5V-2.78V in 0.02V increments
Memory Clock Value 200, 266,333, 400, 533MHz

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XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
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XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review


XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review


XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review


XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review


XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review
XFX nForce 750a SLI Motherboard Review


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