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Gigabyte GA EP45 DQ6 Motherboard
BIOS
Gigabyte has decided to stick with the more popular Award Bios and added a few extra touches such as "Security Chip Configuration" and a few extra touches to the MB Intelligent Tweaker.
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Bios Main Screen |
Standard and Advanced Features
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Standard Features |
Advanced Features |
The Standard features look pretty much the same as they would with any other motherboard. Gigabyte offers 5 different IDE channels, and a floppy option. The advanced Features menu is much more interesting and contains many more options. The Advanced features menu offers Hard Drive S.M.A.R.T. Capability as well as a plethora of CPU options which can be seen in the picture above.
Integrated Peripherals
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Integrated Peripherals |
Integrated Peripherals (Cont.) |
At the integrated peripherals is where this board begins to offer its extensive features that are only unique to this particular board. Up top We have the Intel RAID option followed by USB Controls, legacy and Azelia codec. Just below that are the options for LAN connectivity. The SMART LAN gives the GA-EP45-DQ6 the ability to detect the length of the ethernet cables used in the transfer the data over the ones which have the least energy loss as part of its energy efficiency.
Q - Flash
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Q-Flash |
Q-Flash is the name of the utility that you will be using if you were to update your bios without using software. Q-Flash is hard wired into the motherboard and can be pulled by pressing the "END" key while in the POST screen. The utility itself is simple, very easy to use and provides an excellent way to update your BIOS without entering into the BIOS menu.
Dual Bios
If you have ever overclocked you will know how annoying it is to go back and have to reset all of the values to what you wanted from the original working overclock. Well Gigabyte has solved that problem. Gigabyte will automatically save the last values before the system crash into a mirror BIOS and upon the next boot up will present you a screen in which you will be able to select which BIOS configuration you would like to get loaded into your main bios.
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