ASUS P5N-E SLI review (NF650i) - BIOS, testing
Author: Vedran Dakic
Date: 02 Mar 2007

BIOS

Having a pleasure of testing 680i-based MBO's and DFI's "vision" of RD600 MBO for Intel, we have a pretty idea what we want in MBO's BIOS. This one is pretty standard - you can change the PCI-E clock (no LinkBoost), memory (SLI-memory supported) and FSB as you could do with 680i, which is fine. As far as voltages are concerned - Vcore up to 1.6V, memory voltage up to 2.517V (0,09V steps that we consider to be too big), NBcore up to 1.748V (0,18V - again, we'd like to see "smaller" steps) and Vcore offset (0 or +100mV). Of course, you can "control" some CPU-related features (multiplier, Thermal Control, C1E state, xbit, VT and SpeedStep). So, a pretty standard ASUS BIOS, we'd say.

We (ab)used this motherboard with our standard hardware for testing:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
- 2x1GB OCZ Platinum XTC PC2-8000 memory
- WD RaptorX
- OCZ GameXstream 850W
- ASUS EN7900GTX VGA card