Abit AB9 Quad GT Review - PAGE 3
Michael Nguyen - Monday, March 12th, 2007

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BIOS

Abit uses a 720x480 widescreen format resolution for their BIOS settings. If you read our previous review of Abit's AB9 Pro, you may have noticed that the screens were pink in color instead of the standard blue. Well the Quad GT goes back to the old standard blue for whatever reason.

There isn't anything new with the standard CMOS screen but there still are 3 IDE channels which you can further inspect or modify.





The advanced BIOS features let you enable from CPU features which are the same seen on the AB9 Pro. The advanced chipset features lets you control all the typical RAM settings.





The integrated peripherals screen allows you to adjust the OnChip peripheral drive settings, namely the SATA, IDE and USB allocations.






The power management and PnP/PCI screens are standard although there isn't adjustments for added performance here.




uGuru however garners most of if not all the setting managements that boost system performance.

The first uGuru screen has the configurations for CPU clock, multiplier, M/B strap and DDR RAM clock. While on the AB9 Pro, voltage settings isn't given its own screen, the Quad GT does have its own V/S screen. And there are several more voltage adjustments made available on the Quad GT, including the DDR reference and MCH voltage.





The Abit EQ adjustments are more minor settings, such as the aesthetic LED lights (which light the back of the motherboard) or fans speeds. There is plenty of options to tool around with but none that will primarily effects your system's performance.

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