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BIOS and System Setup
At first glance, the BIOS appeared rather stripped down compared to
other motherboards. If you are used to seeing a litany of options for
controlling your memory timings and such, you will be disappointed. What
options that would normally consume the full screen are represented in
more generalized categories. An example is when you try to adjust the
VCore of your CPU; the options are +5.0%, +7.5%, and +10.0%. I would prefer
to see the actual number displayed.
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because of its use of Dip Switches. The CPU clock multiplier and front
side bus are both setup by the use of these Dip Switches. You must select
the system bus speed on the board to either 100MHz or 133MHz, depending
upon what your CPU supports. Default is 100MHz FSB, so if you have anything
other than a Duron CPU, you will need to change these switches. Beyond
each of these settings is you can adjust the FSB in the BIOS. The ranges
for the FSB are 100~128 or 133~161 according to the manual. If you look
at the BIOS yourself, you will find the FSB will go from 133MHz all the
way to 355MHz when the Dip Switch is set to 133MHz. There is also a printing
on the 7VRXP showing the settings for a FSB of 100/133/166/200MHz. The
area these settings are to be made is missing the Dip Switch that would
allow these settings.
For the overclocker, you can adjust the DDR Voltage in the BIOS from
2.5V to 2.8V in 0.1V increments. You can also increase the AGP voltage
in your overclocking adventures from 1.5V to 1.8V in 0.1V increments as
well. As stated earlier, the CPU VCore is increased in percentage increases.
Software
The 7VRXP ships with a hand full of utilities and software that help
add to the value of the motherboard. Utilities such as Norton Personal
Firewall and Norton Antivirus are a welcome sight. Drivers, system-monitoring
software, overclocking utilities, and other essentials help round out
the 7VRXP software collection.
One software item, provided with the 7VRXP, allows you to change your
BIOS boot screen. This Windows based program is called Face Wizard. By
converting a picture file to the appropriate format, this utility will
flash your BIOS with the picture you have chosen. You can have your system
boot up with your customized message or picture as long as you convert
your picture to the specified size and color settings. Here is a little
suggestion of a good boot screen someone made.
Gigabyte also ships @BIOS™, which is a live BIOS update utility.
With this piece of software you can flash your BIOS from within Windows
and not have to do that annoying DOS and a 3 ½ floppy routine.
Your BIOS can be updated from the Internet with @BIOS™ as well.
If you are an overclocker, Gigabyte and the 7VRXP has a tool for you.
This system monitoring and overclocking utility is called EasyTuneIII™.
From within Windows you can monitor many tasks as well as change make
by using EasyTuneIII™. Your PCI clock, DDR speed, FSB, and CPU speeds
are displayed and changeable. Here is a shot of EasyTuneIII™ running
on my system.
By using EasyTuneIII™, I was able to overclock my system to 1799MHz
and not experience a lockup. This was the same result I was able to achieve
by using the BIOS to overclock. A word to the wise when using this tool,
"Do not go to too high of a setting with EasyTuneIII™."
When you go too far in your overclocking exercise, it is extremely difficult
to shut down Windows while the CPU is overclocked beyond its limits. Sometimes
you will get a lockup in Windows and other times erratic behavior is the
result.
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