In the BIOS, the layout is tidy and sensibly subdivided in the typical Gigabyte style. On the right there is a small monitoring section with current clock rates and voltages. This is especially useful if a previous setting did not work or triggered the automatic dual BIOS.
In the Tweaker tab all clock rates, voltages and related submenus for overclocking are sorted. The fact that the RAM clock rate can be simply typed in and you don’t have to use the dropdown is a nice feature. In the “Advanced CPU Settings” you can also set the necessary additional settings like performance and temperature limits and deactivate the TVB (Thermal Velocity Boost) clipping, which is important for Rocket Lake.
Under “Advanced Memory Settings” you will find various memory training options and below that again in “Memory Channels Timing” the various timings. Here you can really find all imaginable settings and various timings, which are often not even accessible to the user on other boards, such as tCCD. Further down you will also find the Termination and RTL settings, so that everything is really in one menu – very practical.
Unfortunately, auto RTL training is relatively unreliable and likes to switch between default and optimized values from boot to boot, which can introduce a noticeable latency difference. Setting the RTLs manually is possible, but usually only results in a failed boot, even if the same optimized values are entered that were previously trained with Auto. Here the board behaves a bit strange, but more about that later.
At the bottom of the “Tweaker” tab you will find the settings for the power supply like load line calibration and protection functions. The VTT DDR or “DRAM Termination” voltage, which is important for the RAM OC, is also located here and can even be set as an absolute value. As typical for Gigabyte, the LLC settings have a relatively fine gradation with the various levels from “Low” to “Extreme”, whereby Auto or “High” already offers a good compromise between droop and transient response.
In the “Settings” tab the usual additional interfaces on the mainboard can be configured and also the function of the plus and minus buttons can be switched between CPU multiplier and BCLK. A monitoring section for the most important voltages with their current measured values can also be found here.
The functions in the remaining tabs are also clearly and intuitively arranged. Especially useful here in the “Boot” tab is the default selection of “Advanced” mode for BIOS navigation. BIOS profiles can also be saved and loaded here as usual.
Finally, I would like to positively emphasize the favorites function, with which any setting can be marked as a favorite by simply pressing the insert button, recognizable by the orange star. All settings marked in this way are then displayed together in the first “Favorites” tab, so that you can access the essential settings quickly and easily without having to navigate through the sub-menus each time.
I also want to praise the Gigabyte Tweak Launcher software, or GTL for short. While the GUI isn’t fancy and seems a bit stale, it is functional and quite reliable. CPU, cache and BCLK clock speed as well as all important voltages for the OC can be read out, set and even set to hotkeys from here. Especially handy is the direct access to the Vcore LLC from within the OS, which I haven’t seen on any other board so far. In addition, GTL requires no installation and is therefore particularly easy to use.
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