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The Bundle
The AI7 is shipped with an adequate bundle. There is no extra
software supplied, other than the standard utilities found on the installation
disk. Plenty of very good documentation is provided in the form of a Quick
Installation Guide, a User's Manual and the uGuru Quick Guide. We have 2 SATA
cables, 1 SATA power adapter, 1 PATA and a floppy cable, a USB/Firewire
bracket that sports 2 USB, 1 Firewire 6 pin and 1 Firewire 4 pin connector, and
of course the usual back panel plate. ABIT wisely chose to put their money into
quality components and documentation rather than additional software you may
never use.
uGuru Utility
The major marketing feature of the AI7 is the uGuru overclocking
system. Upon installation of the uGuru software in Windows, a system tray
utility gives access to the uGuru utility.
The Turbo screen is a basic FSB clocking
utility. For those that don't have to worry about voltage increases, or if you
are new to overclocking and higher voltages worry you, this is all you need to
get started. Here we can see our CPU identification information, which is a nice
touch.
Here we have the go for broke, over volt it
and "get wild", F1 screen. All the basic bios overclocking features are right
here. The best part is that once you find your fastest stable settings, they can
be saved directly to the bios right from the uGuru utility. Many of you will
prefer getting into the bios and tweaking from there. You will still have to
enter the bios for memory timings and "GAT" acceleration settings. Your
different O/C profiles can be saved and recalled at any time. Get your memory
timings set for max O/C and then you can clock down and "detune" when you want
your system setup be more conservative, without rebooting.
The AI7 BIOS, or the uGuru utility will not likely hold back
your overclocking attempts. We did not run the settings shown above. These are
the maximum allowed by the utility.
Note: All of the "EQ" features are accessed through the same system
tray utility as the uGuru.
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