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The basic overview screen displays the BIOS version alongside details of the installed processor and memory. The other pages allow us to set up various aspects of the motherboard.
Users who plan to overclock will be very dissapointed with Intel's provision. Under the ‘performance' tab, we are able to set the Host Clock Frequency to overclock the processor. But with no option to adjust the core voltage, there is very little headroom for overclocking. And, there is also no CMOS reset option on the board – which we found out the hard way – so it can be troublesome to reset the system to stocks settings if an overclock goes wrong. So we would recommend that users who want to overclock their system should choose a more appropriate motherboard.
There is, however, provision for configuring RAM profiles which lets us adjust ram voltages and timings. Otherwise the BIOS is a standard affair as you can see from the screenshots below.
Really good review, I like these systems and it is always great to see coverage. CPU is good for the price too. Not sure I agree it would need to be core i3, core i5 performance is very strong for the clocks.
weird design if there is no CMOS clearance switch ?
I need a media system like this, my PC noise levels are rubbish for media 🙁
What is that cooler like? a reference intel cooler ?
Nice little system that. Would probably use a different chassis tho
Sounds like the perfect board for me, on my to buy list.
The zotac board seems a better deal than this one as the overclocking options are better.
If they allow for overclocking but give no way to rescue it, what is the point of that? if it locks out how do you get back to normal.
Are you sure the board cant overclock? what is the point of giving bios options if they dont allow voltage increases or ways to get it back to default speeds? isnt that a recipe for a disaster?