The Bios......continued......

     Here we see the Jumperless Configuration Menu with BIOS revision 1005 in place. Whether or not you have the AMD Cool 'N Quiet Configuration enabled all of the requisite settings for overclocking your CPU will be available, provided you set the Ai Overclock Timer to Manual. The only true disappointment here is the maximum available voltage supplied by the K8N-E Deluxe. Ok, let me clarify; the amount of voltage supplied by THIS REVISION of the K8N-E Deluxe. BIOS version 1005 makes a voltage setting of 2.8 volts available, BUT ONLY on MOTHERBOARD REVISION 1.05 and after checking the board Asus sent me, I have revision 1.04! So, no 2.8 Volt vDIMM setting for me.  Granted, I have had this board for about 3 weeks before getting to this section of the review, but I wanted to give Asus the opportunity to clean this board up as much as possible with BIOS releases.

     As I've already covered in the specifications section of the motherboard description; you can select a FSB frequency between 200 - 300 in 1MHz intervals. The multiplier of the CPU is also able to be changed, to its default setting and any setting BELOW the default. THAT combined with the in-place AGP and PCI lock is what I've been waiting for in an Overclocker's Athlon64 motherboard.

     The Chipset options menu houses the settings for DRAM timings and other on-board/chipset options such as allowing on-board audio to be utilized and. Under the Onboard Device menu, the settings for the chipset's Serial ATA controller as well as the additional Silicone Image controller can be configured or disabled. The settings I have configured in this screen shot were utilized with the Corsair TwinX1024-3200XL-PRO which is normally timed at 2/2/2/5. However, to reach a stable overclock at 266 MHz FSB, those timings had to be relaxed a little. We'll get around to the final Overclocking results in a moment.