BIOS

The most recent version of Gigabyte's UEFI BIOS presents itself with an attractive design. When entering the BIOS, the overview screen you see is very well structured and quite an improvement over the overloaded splash screen we saw with Z97 based boards. Especially less experience users will appreciate this menu.

If you wish back the good old times, where you were racing through the menus hammering up and down arrows as well as the enter key ridiculously fast, you just have to press F2 and there you go. Since this motherboard features a very solid power design it is suitable for both gaming and high overclocking. In the BIOS you will soon notice, there are Gigabyte's usual options, which allow for altering virtually anything when it comes to overclocking. Overall, there is certainly no lack of options in this BIOS.  

Page 1 - Introduction	Page 14 - SiSoft Sandra 2
Page 2 - Specs and Delivery	Page 15 - UC Bench
Page 3 - Features	Page 16 - Super Pi 1M / 32M
Page 4 - Layout	Page 17 - wPrime 1024M Multi Core
Page 5 - Connectors and I/O	Page 18 - Cinebench
Page 6 - BIOS	Page 19 - Tomb Raider
Page 7 - Test setup	Page 20 - Metro Last Light
Page 8 - Preview / Gallery	Page 21 - Sleeping Dogs
Page 9 - 3D Mark	Page 22 - Power Consumption
Page 10 - 3D Mark 11	Page 23 - Performance Rating
Page 11 - 3D Mark Vantage	Page 24 - Price Comparison
Page 12 - PC Mark 8	Page 25 - Conclusion
Page 13 - SiSoft Sandra 1