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ECS uses a modified version of the American Megatrends AMIBIOS for their BIOS. Their BIOS menu is split into the Standard CMOS Setup, Advanced Setup, Advanced Chipset Setup, Integrated Peripherals, Power Management Setup, PCI/PnP Setup, PC Health Status, Motherboard Intelligent BIOS (MIB),Load Default Settings, and the passwords for.  BIOS Chip  Battery Standard CMOS Setup is where the SATA drives are detected, Date and Time are located. Note that if SATA HDDs are set in IDE mode, the drives will be detected individually. The CPU features like C1E, XD Bit, Virtualization Technology, EIST and TurboMode are located in the Advanced Setup. Here is also where you see the TDP Limit Override, the CPU Revision, the QPI Frequency, and the Boot Sequence BIOS Protect. The Motherboard Intelligent BIOS is where the tweaking and overclocking is done on this board. One thing to note is that unless you have a 965 XE CPU the multiplier will be locked on a Core i7 CPU so overclocking will be done simply by raising the CPU Frequency. In the case of the Core i7 920 we use for our X58 motherboard platform, the CPU was able to be overclocked to 4GHz without a problem using the Thermalright cooler. With the standard Intel reference cooler the CPU would not overclock past 3.4GHz. You can enter the numbers in manually but be careful as hitting the - sign will cause the maximum value to be set.
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