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abit IX38 QuadGT Mainboard Review (page 6)

Category: Mainboards

by Doors4ever

[ 02/13/2008 | 09:10 AM ]

μGuru Utility section includes two sub-sections. We have already talked about OC Guru features, now it is high time we checked out remarkable monitoring functions offered by ABIT EQ section.

Besides, CPU temperature, system temperature and power consumption, abit has every right to be proud of the opportunity to monitor the temperature of each of the five phases in the processor voltage regulator.

There is only one more mainboard and only from abit that can compare to abit IX38 QuadGT in terms of the number of monitored voltages:

The board can monitor rotation speed of all six fans that can be connected to it.

The users of other manufacturers’ mainboards cannot even simply monitor the rotation speeds of so many fans. abit IX38 QuadGT, however, can even adjust the rotation speed of each fan from the list.

The CPU fan rotation speed is set in percents from the maximum speed. As for the other fans, the rotation speed is set in the interval from minimum to maximum possible speed depending on the set temperature.

μGuru Utility section is extremely rich and covers all the possible settings except the memory timings that can be adjusted in Advanced Chipset Features page:

Other BIOS features of abit IX38 QuadGT mainboard are quite traditional. I would only like to specifically stress that they have finally enabled default USB keyboard support. It is a very small thing, but a pretty important one, considering how many USB keyboards are being used these days.