BIOS Features
The EVGA P55 FTW uses a American Megatrends Inc. BIOS that is widely used by several motherboard vendors. We flashed the BIOS to the most recent one available (as of Dec. 29) in EVGA’s support section for this board model. See the screenshots below for more details about each section of this BIOS.
Main BIOS screen. First screen users will see after booting into the BIOS.
Standard BIOS Features screen includes BIOS, CPU, and memory information.
Advanced BIOS Features
ID Configuration sub-menu under Advanced BIOS Features
Boot Settings Configuration
AHCI Configuration
USB Configuration (No USB 3.0 support on this board)
Advanced Chipset Features menu with configuration options for eSATA, LAN, and Firewire
PCI Express Configuration
PCI/PMP Resource Management
Power Management Features includes ACPI configuration options
Hardware Health Configuration panel to monitor CPU and system temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages
Frequency/Voltage Control Menu contains all key options for overclocking the processor and system memory. Also has special features to enable/disable extreme cooling and VDroop.
Memory Configure menu (pretty standard options)
CPU Configuration menu includes several key options to change like Intel Virtualization Technology and Intel SpeedStep.
