see this is the best thing there is. nobody wants to go into windows and run stuff to suddenly brake. this will save overclockers a lot of time. about 30 minutes if your really fine tuning :) i like this idea!
am sure other motherboard makers can do and do, do the same thing. Truth be told from my personal experience (as well as from reading countless reviews of such) the unfortunate thing is just because it is BIOS stable does not make ire a usable desktop stable (once the operating system loads it)
it should be, but often is not for whatever reason.
I am 100% with you however, we damn well should be able to test NOT using a desktop operating system environment just to "test" the overclock/settings, BIOS/UEFI is generally far far more stable than it was 5 or 10 years ago, but at the same time for as long as they have been making these things (20+ years?) they really should be bullet proof and no use the consumers as guinea pigs to find problems they can and should find (within reason) before they put it on the shelf.
such as Ryzen 2xxx not working "out of the box" and needing a boot kit shipped from AMD.
I do like how EVGA appears to be the FIRST motherboard vendor to get rid of a driver "disk" and is now using a USB included in the box instead for truly plug and play type installation, all makers should follow this example because of the fact most computer cases (at lest the desirable ones) have completely gotten rid of optical drive bays, and because of sometimes the OS not able to use the motherboard/cpu or whatever first time out, you NEED the drivers to make them function (not always, but way more than we should be needing them of course)
yes Win 10 includes "more" of the drivers etc auto installing, but we generally have ZERO control of what it does or does not install, which is never a good thing (could mean killing that brand new part that needs a very specific driver to function properly etc).
anyways Prime95 is a decent stability tester, far from the only one, seeing as it is Intel specific motherboard vendor, they should have also done a heaven and a Intel Burn Test as part of the overclocking test "suite" so 99% of bases are covered for overall system stability testing ^.^
good on EVGA though, really wish they would also do AMD support because there are very few other makers that are as "renowned" as EVGA is (not the best, but they REALLY support their products compared to many other vendors AIB/OEM alike.)
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austinsguitar - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
see this is the best thing there is. nobody wants to go into windows and run stuff to suddenly brake. this will save overclockers a lot of time. about 30 minutes if your really fine tuning :) i like this idea!hanselltc - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
If they make a board for AMD I'd swap out my Asus one to try this BIOS out.Dragonstongue - Tuesday, June 5, 2018 - link
am sure other motherboard makers can do and do, do the same thing. Truth be told from my personal experience (as well as from reading countless reviews of such) the unfortunate thing is just because it is BIOS stable does not make ire a usable desktop stable (once the operating system loads it)it should be, but often is not for whatever reason.
I am 100% with you however, we damn well should be able to test NOT using a desktop operating system environment just to "test" the overclock/settings, BIOS/UEFI is generally far far more stable than it was 5 or 10 years ago, but at the same time for as long as they have been making these things (20+ years?) they really should be bullet proof and no use the consumers as guinea pigs to find problems they can and should find (within reason) before they put it on the shelf.
such as Ryzen 2xxx not working "out of the box" and needing a boot kit shipped from AMD.
I do like how EVGA appears to be the FIRST motherboard vendor to get rid of a driver "disk" and is now using a USB included in the box instead for truly plug and play type installation, all makers should follow this example because of the fact most computer cases (at lest the desirable ones) have completely gotten rid of optical drive bays, and because of sometimes the OS not able to use the motherboard/cpu or whatever first time out, you NEED the drivers to make them function (not always, but way more than we should be needing them of course)
yes Win 10 includes "more" of the drivers etc auto installing, but we generally have ZERO control of what it does or does not install, which is never a good thing (could mean killing that brand new part that needs a very specific driver to function properly etc).
anyways Prime95 is a decent stability tester, far from the only one, seeing as it is Intel specific motherboard vendor, they should have also done a heaven and a Intel Burn Test as part of the overclocking test "suite" so 99% of bases are covered for overall system stability testing ^.^
good on EVGA though, really wish they would also do AMD support because there are very few other makers that are as "renowned" as EVGA is (not the best, but they REALLY support their products compared to many other vendors AIB/OEM alike.)
JayanWarden - Thursday, June 7, 2018 - link
Uhm. Heaven is not possible from within the BIOS.