The Fatal1ty AA8XE also comes with Abit's software suite which provides all the monitoring and tweaking settings that you’re going to need.

All of the utilities are well laid out and easy to understand and operate, here are some shots of the which show the overclocking section. Bios update tool and monitor.

The bios on the AA8XE is an Award bios version and will therefore be familiar to most of you.

Configuration options are plentiful here and whether you’re a novice or advanced over clocker you will be catered for. Here’s where you’ll spend most of you’re over clocking setup time…

You can see above there are various options such as the multiplier, fsb and memory speed as well as the standard voltage settings. In the above screenshot you’ll see we had the user define setting enabled, this was due to a small issue with the board over clocking our PCU to 3.5xghz when on the default settings. Even with the latest bios the CPU wasn’t set to the stock speed so we configured the system ourselves.

Memory settings can also be completely configured from within the bios as shown in the screenshot below.

The final interesting section of the AA8XE’s bios is the EQ section which shows masses of information on the system temps, voltages and fans. Far more information than any other motherboards on the market.

Full information on this motherboard is available from ABIT's website here

 

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