The GIGABYTE BIOS provided with the AORUS X470 GAMING 7 WIFI is unfortunately one of the poorer examples of how to do a BIOS. Despite the high pricetag and investment into high quality power circuitry and heatsinks, the BIOS looks decidedly cheap and empty, almost like it’s missing some features. It’s also slow and laggy and doesn’t support the SteelSeries Rival 700 gaming mouse which we use on the testbench; even at a basic level.
The Easy Mode provides a good overview of settings, but for most people purchasing a motherboard of this calibre, you will almost certainly never look at this page and instead use the more in-depth features.
Disabling the Easy Mode and heading over to M.I.T. where frequency and voltage setting adjustments are made, the entire interface could definitely be regarded as simple, but another word we would use is lacking.
Delving into Advanced Frequency Settings, again, it’s simple but lacking. Even opening the advanced CPU Core Settings, we aren’t exactly overwhelmed with options.
DRAM timing can be tweaked until the heart’s content, but we tend to stick with XMP while testing. The decision to clearly segregate the Standard Timing Control and Advanced Timing Control is a nice gesture though, with some BIOS suites merging the two into a large list.
Overall, we’re not massively impressed by the GIGABYTE BIOS, but it gets the job done.
We achieved a 4.3GHz overclock on our AMD Ryzen 7-2700X CPU, which seems to be the ceiling for our particular piece of silicon. We were able to achieve this overclock on other motherboards, but more voltage was required. This may be down to the incredible cooling provided by the power phase heatsink or the 10+2 digital power delivery being a cleaner, more stable source of energy for the Ryzen CPU.
1946 was our eventual Cinebench R15 score, up from the 1806 base score.
The Easy Mode provides a good overview of settings, but for most people purchasing a motherboard of this calibre, you will almost certainly never look at this page and instead use the more in-depth features.
Disabling the Easy Mode and heading over to M.I.T. where frequency and voltage setting adjustments are made, the entire interface could definitely be regarded as simple, but another word we would use is lacking.
Delving into Advanced Frequency Settings, again, it’s simple but lacking. Even opening the advanced CPU Core Settings, we aren’t exactly overwhelmed with options.
DRAM timing can be tweaked until the heart’s content, but we tend to stick with XMP while testing. The decision to clearly segregate the Standard Timing Control and Advanced Timing Control is a nice gesture though, with some BIOS suites merging the two into a large list.
Overall, we’re not massively impressed by the GIGABYTE BIOS, but it gets the job done.
We achieved a 4.3GHz overclock on our AMD Ryzen 7-2700X CPU, which seems to be the ceiling for our particular piece of silicon. We were able to achieve this overclock on other motherboards, but more voltage was required. This may be down to the incredible cooling provided by the power phase heatsink or the 10+2 digital power delivery being a cleaner, more stable source of energy for the Ryzen CPU.
1946 was our eventual Cinebench R15 score, up from the 1806 base score.