BIOS

The BIOS of Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 mainboard is based on Award code. The mainboard we tested features an older version F2 of the BIOS, so in this review we will look at this particular BIOS version. By the way, if you press F9 in the first screen, you will get the system info page:

It is very convenient that almost everything an overclocker might be interested in can be found on MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.) page:

Gigabyte wins another point for the very convenient FSB frequency input: you can just type it in with a keyboard. However, you can also look through the available list using Page Up and Page Down keys.

The memory frequency should be set using multipliers:

However, you won?t need to use a calculator to get the final frequency value, if you set, for example, 437MHz FSB and 2.66 multiplier. The end frequency will automatically appear in the Memory Frequency line.