Nicely done! Pretty impressive.. Good overclocking options?
In BIOS, you are able to adjust the usual Vcore voltage, Load Line Calibration, and RAM voltage. Additionally you can adjust:
- Vcore offset voltage,
- VRIN voltage,
- RING voltage and RING offset voltage,
- CPU System Agent voltage,
- PCH voltage,
- PLL voltage and PLL filter level
- Each core's Turbo multiplier individually
- K OC (which unlocks certain non-K processors' multiplier to be adjusted)
- Many more that I don't even recognize...
Notably it's missing:
- PWM Phase control (I guess all 4 phases of this MB is always on)
- DRAM VTT voltage
- CPU & DDR Voltage and Current Protection (although there is over-current protection, you just can't adjust it)
- VRIN Switch Rate
But honestly, with K processors' multiplier overclocking, the only voltages you need to adjust are: Vcore, VRIN, and RING. All power savings features like C-states should be turned off. And it's as easy as turning up multiplier, Vcore, VRIN, and RING, and boom you're done. If you want to make it even easier, you can just adjust Vcore and multiplier manually and leave everything else, except for power savings, on auto and you'll still be fine.
With just 4 phases on this mobo (compared to as many as 16 phases on some higher-end ones), I was still able to achieve 4.7Ghz. On some review sites, I've seen some higher-end mobos achieve up to 4.8Ghz stable with their 16 phases. 100Mhz increase at twice the cost doesn't seem worth it for me.
Overall, this mobo is feature-packed at a very reasonable price. For the standard overclocker, it's more than enough. Regarding the reliability though, only time will time. So far, had no issues whatsoever.
