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The BIOS

The Gigabyte X38-DQ6 uses a standard AWARD BIOS, to which Gigabyte has added a number of features like the "M.I.T." Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker, saving and loading of BIOS configurations, and reflashing the BIOS.

Editor's Note: Gigabyte was kind enough to send a total of three new BIOS revisions thanks to our feedback during the course of our review, the last of which came in too late for us to include results in the review. Should that BIOS make a significant difference to our memory benchmarks, we will update this review.

As you can see below, the main menu and most of the other screens are pretty standard.

There are up to two IDE and ten SATA devices.

You can check the capacity of each attached device, as well as set its access mode.

The Advanced BIOS menu lets you configure boot priority and processor features such as EIST.

The Integrated Peripherals screen lets you enable or disable the on-board peripherals.

And we also have a typical power management screen.