Quantum BIOS

By pressing “Del” on Foxconn BloodRAGE mainboard boot-up, you get access to the main menu of its BIOS Setup.

There seems to be nothing unusual at first glance. Only the “Advanced BIOS Features” section that has always been in the second position is now replaced with “Boot Setting Configuration”. It turned out to be the same thing with standard parameters.

We will skip a few general sections with traditional parameter sets and dwell on “Hardware Monitor” that looks very impressive:

The first thing that pleases us a lot is a long list of monitored voltages. Besides, we can adjust the rotation speed of the three fans right from the mainboard BIOS: CPU Fan, NB Fan and System Fan. In “Smart Fan” mode the board sets the most optimal speed depending on the current temperature readings. You can give up adjustable rotation speed by setting “Full Speed” mode or lock the speed at a certain percentage from the maximum value – by setting “By Duty-Cycle” mode. The rotation speed of two more fans can also be adjusted, though not directly. You just need to define the dependence of their rotation speed on the speed of one of the first three fans.

The next section is called “Quantum BIOS” and contains all overclocking-related settings. It looks almost absolutely perfect: there are options of adjusting all important frequencies with the info fields that will immediately report their actual values highlighted with different colors for more illustrative picture.

In order not to overload the section with info and keep it easy to work with, some parameters have been singled out into individual sub-sections. The first one is called “CPU Features” and contains all CPU-related parameters. Only “CPU Turbo” parameter was left in the main section for some reason.

“Memory Settings” sub-section contains everything related to memory subsystem configuration: