ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional Review

👤by Alex Hull Comments 📅18-08-11
BIOS

The 990FX Professional uses the new UEFI interface as a replacement for the traditional text-based BIOS. In theory, this allows for easier, clearer and more reliable manipulation of the advanced system settings as well as the more mundane ones. As you can see the UEFI design matches the branding.


The BIOS splash screen


The first sceen in the BIOS gives information about the CPU, including current frequencies and other information. The main screen of interest here is the OC Tweaker screen, which allows us to overclock and change various settings relating to system performance. Although it looks slick, all the information doesn’t fit on one page alone, even though a more efficient layout may allow, and at times the response from the mouse seemed to lag, and transitions between settings wasn’t as fluid as a traditional interface. One can only hope this will be addressed with a BIOS update, but it seems more like a fundamental issue with the relatively new UEFI technology. In addition to this, the fan control seemed to only function correctly on certain fans, perhaps an issue to do with the PWM/DC control methods, as this left our test rig Corsair H70 at full-pelt, which was unpleasant and unnecessary.


The OC Tweaker screen



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