ASUS Maximus 4 Extreme Review
BIOS Pt1
Published: 3rd January 2011 | Source: ASUS | Price: £300 tbc |
BIOS Pt1
It was nearly two years ago that we first saw the EFI BIOS which promised to revolutionise the way we treated the blue screens we see so much of. It was outstandingly impressive and we couldn't wait for it to appear on motherboards. Multiple new chipsets have come and gone since then without a single one of them moving away from the standard "cursors and Enter" method of adjusting your BIOS. Finally though with the P67 Maximus IV Extreme from ASUS we see the mouse controlled BIOS making an appearance.
Instantly you can see what a benefit this has to legibility. Also the days of built-in overclocking giving a minuscule increase appear to be over as the CPU Level Up gives us the option of a staggering 4.6 GHz for our i7-2600K we're testing with today.
Although the items have moved around a bit, and the way in which we navigate has certainly changed, generally speaking the adjustments that can be made are the same.
The Turbo Power screen on the right is important. The methodology of overclocking these new processors is very different indeed, and we discuss that in our CPU review that is also going up at the same time as this one.
Power can be adjusted either based upon heat restrictions, or just going all out for maximum power. So much of the new chips and the chipset is based upon energy saving which makes sense considering the new overclocking method.
As you can see although it looks very different, it's actually quite familiar too.
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Originally Posted by Zeals
Will you do an update or anything when they release a more stable BIOS? |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
Possibly, depends if they have taken the board back by then. |
You should add static values to each bar to make it easier to compare between them. There are so many graphs associated with reviews such as yours, would be nice to be able to move more quickly through them.
And especially in cases like the wprime95 in your new LGA 1155 review where the 1024M values are so high they stretch the scale, leaving almost no resolution for displaying the 1M results. So you have to hover the mouse over each of them.
Also just post them as pictures, the animations don't really add anything to it and pictures will probably load faster. But most importantly you gain compatibility with non flash compatible mobile devices.
I mostly read review and do research when commuting and being out of the house. Most other sites work for that, but yours.
Other than that, thanks for a great site. I appreciate the amount of detail you out into your work.
Looking forward to see how far you can get the i7-2600K on boards like the new UD7 from Gigabyte. I don't really trust the Digi+ VRM and UEFI bios yet.
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Originally Posted by coolgame
will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
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Originally Posted by coolgame
will the nh-d14 fit on the other asus p67 boards?can u plz review them as well???? |
Tim
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