The program for controlling the speed of the fans takes a long time to calibrate at first:

When the calibration is over, it reports the current speed and temperature:

The Biostar TForce P965 could not control the fan speed through the BIOS and it couldn’t do that with the special utility. I couldn’t slow the fan down even manually.

The screenshot from the manual shows that there appear sliders on the right that can be used to set up the desired speed. But the speed remained the same irrespective of the position of the sliders.

The last program is meant to overclock your system from Windows.

There are no tips or hints here (kind of traditionally for Biostar as I have come to realize) while the icons are not very intuitive. I thought the bottom left icon with the spanner would open a settings window, but it turned to be the button to minimize the program window.

The program shows its wealth of options on your clicking the arrow icon in the top left.

Some of these windows are only informational. For example, you can’t change the PCI bus frequency. The other parameters can be adjusted by clicking on the small arrows. The FSB frequency is changed with a step of 1MHz and the new parameters are applied after each click, so this is a slow process. You can’t enter the desired value from the keyboard, which is inconvenient. And if you launch this program when the CPU is already overclocked, the FSB frequency is immediately dropped to 400MHz. Perhaps because the top FSB frequency the program supports is 450MHz whereas I had overclocked the Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 with the BIOS options to 490MHz FSB. So, this is a pretty-looking, but virtually useless program.

Well, I won’t count the software among the drawbacks of the Biostar TForce P965. I don’t know any exclusive program from a mainboard manufacturer, even from the major ones, that would surpass third-party utilities in user-friendliness and functionality. After all, we don’t require the authors of good software to design good mainboards. So, we shouldn’t wait for good software from mainboard manufacturers either, although that would be great, for sure.