Gigabyte P35-DS3R BIOS

For some reason, the Gigabyte BIOS still requires you to hit Ctrl-F1 to unlock ALL of the options inside the tweaking menus, but overall did a good job of presenting options to the power user.

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This poorly documented feature attempts to OC your PCIe bus for the graphics card.

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The FSB on the Gigabyte P35-DS3R goes up to 700 MHz or 2800 MHz quad pumped.  That should be plenty of head room for overclockers.

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The BIOS does have a slightly annoying feature of blinking these red options on an off to indicate that they are high enough to possibly damage your hardware.  It made taking screen shots pretty difficult.

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The CPU voltages can go up to 2.0v here while the Asus BIOS limited us to 1.7v.

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Here are all of the memory timings and settings you can adjust in the BIOS as well.

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