Gigabyte – GA-G41M-ES2H Micro ATX motherboard

All those juicy specs are nice but what good is it all without the remaining system parts. I chose to create a low priced LAN box, I decided this because this board is ideally suited for this purpose and I was curious how much that PCI-e 16x slot running at 4x would hamper a decent dedicated graphics card.

Booting the machine up was flawless, opening up the BIOS I was a extremely surprised at the amount of customizability and performance enhancement features available.

Inside the BIOS Gigabyte offered the “M.I.T” or “MB Intelligent Tweaker” which houses all sorts of fun settings for tweaking your performance everything from overclocking your CPU to adjusting ram latency and voltage. basically all the overclocking features you would expect from a full power full sized motherboard this left me very surprised because at first glance this appears to be a budget board especially with only a 8x PCI-e slot. It would be good to note that inside the “M.I.T” there are options to overclock the PCI-e bus which will provide a little bit of a performance increase to your PCI-e cards. ( Note: PCI-e Devices are not guaranteed to operate normally if frequency is set higher than the 100Mhz default)

The other features that complement the optimizing goodness of the M.I.T are the standard set of BIOS features you would expect all motherboards to have like setting your drives master slave functionality as well as setting passwords, boot order, and power management. Checking the PC health tab opens the ability to see your current temperature and fan settings as well as setting fan failure alarms and high temperature alarms.

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