This sub-section is relatively big, so some parameters have been moved to individual pages, so that it could be easy to work with all these settings. In particular, they moved memory timings adjustment to an individual page:

Voltages can also be adjusted on a separate page. By default they are all set to “Auto”.

Winding up our discussion of the “Advanced” sub-section, I suggest checking out “IDE Configuration” page where you can adjust the settings related to drives.

“H/W Monitor” section doesn’t contain too many functions. Among the indisputable advantages I should mention the board’s ability to control the rotation speed of all five fans that can be connected to it. Another great plus is the ability to adjust the rotation speed of the CPU fan right in the BIOS, but this feature will work only if the CPU fan uses a four-pin connector.

“Boot” section pleased us with the option to set a USB drive as a boot-up device. In this case the board will boot from any bootable USB flash plugged into any USB port.

Finally, the last section called “Exit” offers you to save up to three BIOS settings profiles. You can’t assign them any names or descriptions, but it is anyway better than nothing.

Overall, I would say that the theoretical functionality of the new ASRock X58 SuperComputer BIOS is way above average. We clearly see that the developers did their best to provide the users with all the functionality that other manufacturers’ mainboards have to offer and even added a few great bonuses of their own. As for the drawbacks, I would say it is not very convenient to use “+” and “-“ keys to go through all the settings until you find the right one. Far not all the settings have a drop down menu where you could pick the value right away, and there is absolutely no possibility to enter the value using keyboard.