ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard - ABIT IC7-MAX3
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ABIT IC7-MAX3 Motherboard
BIOS Continued
Above is the SoftMenu Setup screen. Basically where most of your tweaking and overclocking will take place. Here you can adjust your CPU's FSB, DRAM Ratio, AGP Ratio, CPU Voltage, DDR Voltage and AGP Voltage. One of the great things about the Canterwood and Springdale chipsets is the ability to keep your AGP/PCI's in spec when overclocking your CPU's FSB independently of the AGP/PCI BUS. Another sweet feature is the ability to run Synchronous or Asynchronous with your Memory. Assuming you don't have memory that can run 200MHz or faster, you can set it to run at a 5:4 or 3:2 ratio in comparison to the CPU. Slowly but surely we are seeing super fast DDR500 and DDR533 introduced into the marketplace and this becomes less of a concern, but for now, most of the hardcore overclockers will want to run some sort of ratio if they have a 2.4c or 2.6c and are running a super high FSB. As always, ABIT gives us nearly endless options when trying to squeeze every last drop of performance out of our CPU. Here is what we have to work with.
I'd say 412MHz is MORE than enough for any overclockers tastes out there. Mmmhhhmmm. You can also "key" in your FSB directly which is much faster than waiting to scroll to your target number. Here are a few other screens to take note of.
DRAM Ratio
N/B Strap CPU
AGP Ratio
CPU and DDR Voltages
BIOS and Chipset Features
ABIT's Exclusive Game Accelerator
PC Health Status
The PC Health Status screen is of course important so you can monitor vital temperatures and voltages of your system. It should be your last stop before exiting the BIOS after a bump in FSB speed.
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