Gigabyte EP45-UD3P Motherboard Review :: BIOS and Overclocking

Gigabyte tends to use a slightly modified version of the Phoenix Award BIOS for their BIOS and the EP45 UD3P is no exception to that rule. The Main menu is split into MIB, Standard CMOS, and Advanced BIOS Features, Integrated Peripherals, Power Management Setup, PNP/PCI Configuration, PC Health Status and the default sets.

Most of these menus are fairly self-explanatory but the tweaking and overclocking is done on the Motherboard Intelligent BIOS which is on the first menu on the left hand side of the BIOS selections. Overclocking of the board was impressive, as the board managed a high of 540MHz FSB with lowering the voltage and raising the FSB.

Here are the settings in the BIOS for this board:

Gigabyte EP45 UD3P	Range
CPU Host Frequency	100-1200 in 1MHz increments
PCIE Frequency	100-150 in 1MHz increments
Voltages
CPU Vcore	0.50-2.3v in 0.00625v increments
CPU Term Voltage	1.1v-1.7v in 0.02v incremnets
CPU PLL Voltage	1.5v-2.81 in various incremntrs
CPU Reference	0.76v-1.010v in various increments
MCH Core	1.1v-2.0v in 0.02v increments
MCH Reference	0.76v-1.010v in various increments
MCH/DRAM Reference	0.9v-1.76v in 0.02v increments
ICH IO	1.5v-2.31v in 0.02v increments
ICH Reference	1.1v-1.4v in 0.1v increments
DRAM Voltage	1.45v-3.02v in 0.02v increments
DRAM Termination	70.9v-1.355v in various increments
Channel A Reference	0.9v-1.76v in various increments
Channel B Reference	0.9v-1.76v in various increments

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