Albatron PX 875P Pro Mainboard

BIOS

Moving on to the BIOS, let's see what this puppy's got under the hood. Albatron is using the Phoenix BIOS which took me a couple of minutes to get used to, being more familiar with the Award BIOS setup.

As you can see, the BIOS menu is pretty intuitive, even for me. At the top, is the menu where you can find what ever submenu you need to tweak. 

Most of the BIOS is basic fare, so what we're going to highlight is the Advanced menu. There are several items that are noteworthy for this board. At the top, you have normal stuff for setting the boot order and such so let's move to the bottom where we can pull our clock speeds and other cool stuff.

Under the Advanced BIOS options you can see where the Hyper threading can be enabled or disabled along with your L1 and L2 cache and various other settings. 

 

Moving along to the Advanced Chipset, we've got our memory timings. These can be set either automatically by the board or manually with the full range of timings.

The last sub menu we'll concentrate on is the fun one. Under the Frequency/Voltage Control menu are all the settings for you overclocking gurus out there. The CPU Host Frequency lets us bump the FSB from 200MHz to a whopping 550MHz. If you can cool it, clock it baby!

 

The DDR to CPU ratio was a tad bit confusing until I read the manual (DOH!). Not listing a ratio per se, instead is a listing of numbers which when multiplied by the CPU frequency will give you your memory speed. 

We've got some serious overclocking potential here with this board, and believe you me, I'm gonna see what it will do.

The only downside I can see with the overclocking potential is the voltage options. 

As you can see, they allow for a good increase in the voltage but only by .1 increments. This is also true for the memory and AGP voltage. I'd personally rather have the option to increase it in smaller increments.

On to the testing!

 

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