BIOS Features (cont’d)
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Here you can see the barrage of available memory timings available when you set the DRAM timings to Manual.  They are well divided into categories like “standard” and “advanced” to let you users know which settings you must likely want to fiddle with.

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Here are the rest of the timings for your reference — told you there was a lot!

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CPU clock skew can be adjusted with some minute pico-second settings.

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Here you can set the overvoltage on the DDR2 memory system to as high as 1.55v over the stand voltage applied to the memory modules.

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The PCIe voltage can be increase by as much as 0.35v.

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The FSB voltage can also be increased by 0.35v.

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The south bridge can be overvolted as much as 0.375v.

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The CPU voltages have a large range on this motherboard as well and can go as LOW as 0.5v!

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But most of you will be more impressed by the fact that you can push the voltage on the CPU as HIGH as 2.05v — well over the 1.31v that our test CPU runs at.
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