All these above listed peculiarities are typical of almost all Gigabyte mainboards. The company engineers always accompany them with some other technologies driving extra performance. Among those are: M.I.B.2 (Memory Intelligent Booster 2), C.I.A. 2(CPU Intelligent Accelerator 2) and R.G.B (Robust Graphics Booster). The latest BIOS versions of the mainboard we are reviewing today have only the R.G.B. technology, while all the others have been removed, just in case. And this was a very smart decision, I should say, because the hardware enthusiasts were not satisfied with the efficiency of these technologies anyway and still preferred manual system adjustment and overclocking. So, we can call the new BIOS for Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI much more overclocking-friendly now.

However, there is still a lot of room for improvement in the BIOS Setup structure of the Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI mainboard. First of all, PC Health Status section needs a makeover, because it is not as informative as it actually should be. Although the mainboard can monitor a lot of parameters, the only things you can find here are fan rotation speeds and CPU temperature. All voltages are hidden behind the faceless “OK” values.

However, we would definitely want to give proper credit to the memory timings configuration page. Of course, Gigabyte GA-K8NXP-SLI cannot boast the same flexibility here as the leading overclocking-friendly platforms, but the memory controller settings it offers are quite extensive anyway.