BIOS Features
The Gigabyte X58A-UD3R uses a modular Award Software BIOS and we flashed it to their latest version (F5), which includes memory compatibility improvements.
Main Menu
Top portion of MB Intelligent Tweaker Menu
CPU Clock Ratio options
Advanced CPU Features submenu under M.I.T. menu (Includes many power options that will need to be tweaked to get the best overclock possible)
QPI Clock Ratio options
Uncore Clock Ratio options
Base Clock (BCLK) Frequency options
Advanced Clock Control submenu under M.I.T. menu
Performance Enhance options
System Memory Multiplier options
DRAM Timing Selectable options for all levels of users
Advanced DRAM Features submenu
Load Line Calibration options for adjusting vDroop
Advanced Voltage Control submenu
CPU Vcore options (voltages can be tweaked in .0625v increments)
CPU PLL options
DRAM Voltage options (most DDR3 memory max out at 1.65 volts)
Standard CMOS Features Menu
Advanced BIOS Features Menu (This menu is where you’ll want to manage your boot settings and disable the full screen logo on boot)
Integrated Peripherals Menu
Power Management Setup Menu
PC Health Status Menu
As with most mid-range to high-end offerings from Gigabyte, the overclocking feature set is beyond what other vendors provide to their customers. The sheer amount of options can make any PC enthusiast dizzy unless they have an electrical engineering degree or practice hardcore overclocking with LN2 for a living. This modest reviewer usually only makes a few voltage adjustments to the CPU and memory to help get stable overclocks at around 4GHz, but anything beyond that would require some serious overclocking skills and plenty of liquid nitrogen.