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The BIOS

Asus wants to make sure that people remember that this board is part of their Republic of Gamers series, and the system boots with the ROG logo.

The rest of the BIOS is pretty standard, with the exception of the Extreme Tweaker menu.

Ok, now we get to the fun stuff - the Extreme Tweaker menu's.

If you are a novice overclocker, you will like the "CPU Level Up" menu - it will let you painlessly overclock your processor some - however if you fancy yourself an experienced overclocker, you will want to ignore the level up menu, and tweak the settings manually.

As you can see, the System Clocks, FSB & Memory Config, Overclocking and Over Voltage menu's contain most of the "meat" of the overclocking controls - but note the additional LED controls at the bottom that can be used to indicate overtemp or overvoltage conditions.

I found the memory  multiplier selection to be a bit weak, I wish there were some more multipliers available; fortunately the unlinked mode works better than I expected - so if you can't get a memory speed you want with the normal divisors, go ahead and unlink memory speeds and just run your memory at your highest speed / lowest latency combination. It works.

I liked the voltage tweakebility, but I wish that Auto showed you what the Auto voltage was.

The rest of the BIOS screens were pretty ordinary, here they are for your viewing pleasure: