BIOS

The BIOS of EPoX EP-5P965+ GLI mainboard is based on Phoenix-Award code and doesn’t contain anything unusual or brand new. Its features are pretty common for EPoX mainboards, so if you have ever dealt with one, you should see nothing new.

Almost all the overclocking-friendly features are gathered in the Power BIOS section.

For the CPU with 266MHz nominal bus speed, the FSB frequency can be raised to 510MHz with 1MHz increment. In most cases it should be enough. It is also very convenient that you can enter the frequency value right from the keyboard.

However, if the CPU supports 200MHz bus frequency, the maximum you can raise to drops down to 350MHz, and for the CPUs with 133MHz bus – to 199MHz. It automatically implies that the highly promising Core 2 Duo E4300, for instance, which has already started appearing in stores will not clock beyond 3.15GHz, which is not enough for very well-overclockable processors from Intel Core family.

PCI Express bus frequency can be increased from 100MHz to 150MHz. theoretically, you can also change the multiplier, however, our Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 CPU had a locked multiplier, so we couldn’t check it out. As for the memory, the set of supported multipliers changes depending on the nominal bus frequency of the CPU.