Abit NF8 - Page 5
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BIOS
Abit
continues the use of their nicely organized SoftMenu system for
overclocking. The section includes all the necessities to achieve
good overclocking results.
The BIOS seems well put
but does lack a little in the VDIMM department. While the popular
TCCD chips usually only need a maximum of 2.8v, users with old BH5, UTT,
or even OCZ EB memory will want more than that. If Abit's not
going to supply another DIMM slot for use with the DDR Booster, they
should definitely include up to at least 3.2v for VDIMM. All the
other voltages seem to be pretty fair. The DDR reference voltage
is not something I'm very familiar with. I've never seen that come
up in a motherboard before, and I've played with plenty. If it's
the VTT tracking that I presume to be, then you'll want to set it to
approximately half of VDIMM. One thing though, I got better
results with leaving DDR Ref Voltage to 1.24v. Upping it seemed to
cause more instability for me.
The Phoenix Award BIOS is
very simple to navigate and understand. There were no special
options for memory latency adjustments other than the usual CAS, TRCD,
TRP, and TRAS. The NF8 does allow a mighty impressive 450HTT, but
then again, no one is really going to hit that high. One strange
thing I encountered was that if I installed my Clawhammer CPU, the
Command Rate option disappears. It would only appear if I
installed a Newcastle or Sempron processor. With the Clawhammer,
command rate of 1T is automatically defaulted. Notice in the last
BIOS shot that the CPU temperature reads 77°C. It just goes to
show that you certainly can't believe the temps you see in the BIOS.
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