BIOS

Foxconn has selected the very familiar Phoenix Award BIOS to pair up with their AMD K8 SLI solution.  Many of the features here are well known to us but let's take a look through the BIOS screens pointing out the highlights.  I'm not going to go into detail to the point of naming everything visible within the screen shots as a pictures speaks a thousand words.

The BIOS features screen differs quite a bit from what you may be used to seeing.  The Foxconn SuperBoot, SuperBIOS Protect and SuperRecovery are set from this screen.  Below these are the meat of what Joe User will be looking at and for in the BIOS; clock multipliers, CPU frequency, memory clock index, DRAM settings and voltage adjustments.

CPU clock and HT clock multipliers first.

Next is quite a wide spread for CPU frequency; 200 - 300MHz in 1MHz increments.

The system's memory can be set to auto or be manually set to work off of any of the index base speeds shown below.  Tweaking of the memory is far from ignored with the Foxconn NF4SK8AA as you will soon see.

Here are a few shots of the memory adjustments available. 

Voltage wise you are limited to the processor and the memory.  No chipset voltage adjustments unfortunately.

Normally we don't really harp much on the PC Health Status screens in a BIOS but the options here are far from normal.  You can see the CPU warning and shutdown temperature trip points.  I would have liked to see a few additional and higher shutdown trip point myself but these are most certainly adequate.

The last adjustments on the PC Health Status screen are for 'Fan2'.  As per Foxconn's tech support, Fan2 is for...

(Fan2 seems a bit odd and confusing to me too.)