The Bios

This is an Abit board, and as such they have expectations and a reputation for a good bios full of features and tweakable options. Well, you won't be disappointed here. Being a KT333 motherboard, the Bios includes the 1/5 divider, so if you want to run your CPU at 166 FSB, but your PCI cards don't like it they can easily be made comfortable again. The FSB on this motherboard goes to an incredible 250 MHz, which may seem like overkill, but with the pace that the PC enthusiast world continues to set, it could be a useful feature later on assuming AMD release further chips that are seriously overclockable. There are people who have set 200+ FSB successfully so this would certainly appeal to them. Being able to key in an FSB choice is great, and a lot easier and quicker than going through a list of numbers to get to the last one.

Voltages for the CPU and DDR are here too as well as all of the memory timing's such as the CAS Latency and Bank Interleave. The PC Health Status screen has all of the usual suspects available here as well as some safety features. You can set a temperature warning for the CPU as well as a shutdown point.

There is also a CPU Fan Fail setting that can instantly shutdown your computer if the HSF fan fails. The Raid Bios contains all the options to configure a Raid array, select your boot device. The Raid bios does of course add to the reboot time, taking 6 or 7 seconds longer than normal whilst it scans for devices, but this is to be expected.

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