The voltage management is implemented in a similar way. All basic voltage may be changed in the main window, while secondary voltages have been moved to “Advanced Voltage Control” sub-section.

All voltages are set to Auto by default that is why the board may increase them during overclocking, as it sees necessary. A tremendous advantage of all Gigabyte mainboards is that you can set any parameter to “Normal” instead of “Auto”, which will keep the nominal value of the parameter unchanged even during overclocking.

You can also see from the screenshot that the board allows lowering the voltages below the nominal value. Something this option may be very useful, but not all mainboards out there have it.

If the value has been set too high it will be highlighted purple and then blinking red.

Winding up the discussion of BIOS Setup functionality we have to mention numerous informational parameters available in “MB Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)” and its sub-sections. We know the current frequencies of different busses, memory timings, voltages – all this makes system fine tuning, overclocking and search for optimal settings a lot simpler and faster.

I suggest that we should skip the standard functionality of a few following BIOS sections, because we are already very well familiar with them. I would like just to remind you that if you want to get access to the complete set of options and parameters on a Gigabyte mainboard, you need to press Ctrl-F1 in the main BIOS screen. Yes, this is some kind of an atavism left from the old times when Gigabyte mainboards were not so user-friendly.

The next section that is of certain interest to us is called “PC Health Status”. Monitoring has never been a strong side of Gigabyte mainboards. And this time again we don’t see anything ultimately exceptional. There is only one unique feature here that is connected with the board’s ability to control the rotation speed of the CPU cooler fan. Unlike many contemporary mainboards, Gigabyte solutions can control the rotation speed of not only four-pin fans but also of three-pin ones.

In conclusion I would like to remind you that by pressing F9 you will get a window with some useful system info on your board.

The “End” key pressed on mainboard boot-up or F8 pressed in the main BIOS window will launch a built-in BIOS reflashing utility.

By pressing F11 in the main window you can save the current BIOS settings profile with a detailed description. Moreover, the board also saves the latest settings every time POST is passed successfully. If you reflash the BIOS, all profiles will be erased, however, you can save them on an external storage medium. By pressing F12 you can load you own saved settings profile or one of automatically saved ones.

It is obvious that the functionality of Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P BIOS hasn’t been limited in any way - the number of options as well as the supported value intervals remained intact. Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P BIOS is just as good as the BIOS of its higher-end counterparts. We are anxious to get down to system overclocking now, but before we do so, we need to get familiar with a few operational peculiarities of Gigabyte based systems.