Jetway NC94-510-LF Mini-ITX Atom Motherboard

Bios and overclocking

The bios itself is pretty basic, very similar to an OEM bios screen with the exception that its not locked down. The bios lets you adjust the few features of the atom chip such as Hyper threading and Execute-Disable Bit capability both of which are nice features to have the ability to change but frankly you will probably never change them from the default values. Other than the few chip features and the standard power settings available on all boards the bios shows us that the Atom D510 chip runs at a cool 86^o F and the board itself runs at just a few degrees higher which is probably a result of the low clearance on the Micro ATX case causing heat to stay pretty centralized around the board, the VCore voltage is visible at 1.160V but is unchangeable.

Overclocking on this board comes in the form of being able to change timings on the ram. The inability to overclock the Atom processor will inevitably make some enthusiasts cringe, still it was a nice gesture to allow the manipulation of ram timings, and adjusting of the speed of DRAM from 667Mhz to 800Mhz. Enthusiasts would be better served with full ATX and CPU boards targeted towards higher performance which the D510 is clearly not. For its intended use the D510 meets and exceeds the needs of consumers looking for computing without gaming and overclocking.

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