When quickly browsing through the PX915P-AGPe BIOS settings, it became clear that this Albatron motherboard was very overclocking worthy. The first menu I stopped by was titled ?Frequency/Voltage Control? which housed a large majority of overclocking options. The first option is titled CPU Clock/Speed, which enables the user to adjust their FSB in 1MHz increments. The FSB can be adjusted from 100MHz to just 400MHz. The next processor based option allows the user to select a multiplier from the processor ranging from 8x to 50x.Other options found in the Frequency/Voltage Control menu were voltage based including CPU, DIMM, and NB voltages. Many of today?s motherboards feature some form of automatic overclocking feature. Albatron has not included such a feature, which would suggest that this board is best suited to the more experienced overclocker. Nevertheless, Albatron has included all the necessary options to push your LGA775 processor to the max!
Another important menu to be on the lookout for is the "Advanced Chipset Features" menu. Here the user has full control over their memory timings, the ability to use the BySPD function exists along with a manual configuration. The memory?s CAS Latency, Active to Precharge Delay, DRAM RAS# to CAS# Delay and DRAM RAS# Precharge timings can all be manually configured. There is also of course, a great deal of AGP based options such as Aperture Size, Fast Write, Sideband Addressing and so on.
Other menus include; PC Health Status, Advanced BIOS Feature and Integrated Peripherals. The PC Health Status menu allows the user to monitor the CPU temperature, CPU/Memory/AGP voltage, fan RPM speed for chassis, processor and power supply fan. Overall, the PX915P-AGPe BIOS layout and setup is very straight forward and easy to navigate. Using this BIOS will require a bit of tweaking knowledge as this board appears to be aimed at the experienced overclocker.
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