ASUS UEFI BIOS Review - PAGE 3

Overall, the ASUS UEFI is definitely a change for the better. Of course it overcomes the aforementioned problems with the classic BIOS, but it does so in an elegant way, in my opinion, by implementing a full UEFI, compared to Gigabyte's own solution which ended up being an EFI bootloader slapped onto the existing BIOS (though with support for hard drive capacities of 3TB and more). Gigabyte's solution gets the job done, but sooner or later, it's going to need the full installment of the UEFI. Of course, there is no mouse support in this Hybrid EFI, as Gigabyte calls it. Instead, the Touch BIOS was developped, which is merely an application running on a Windows operating system, whereas ASUS' UEFI is actually OS independent.

The UEFI still keeps the same BIOS menus as before, instead putting them into the Advanced Mode, so as to not disappoint users accustomed to the the AMI BIOS and of course the overclockers in need of the fine tuning options. The UEFI can still be navigated entirely using the keyboard, exactly like the AMI BIOS. The UEFI also has the option for starting right away in Advanced Mode, so all in all there is absolutely no downside of moving to UEFI.

In a few words, the ASUS UEFI is awesome for being aesthetically pleasing, simple and exaustive at the same time. Everyone should just be hoping that other manufacturers follow the same path soon. As of now, the only other manufacturer that has implemented UEFI is MSI. Maybe its Click BIOS, as it calls it, will be the subject of a future article. ASUS has raised the bar high for others to reach, though.