uGuru Utility Page

What is really exciting is the uGuru utility page. Here you can change all overclocking related setttings.


CPU FSB can be adjusted from 100 to 500 MHz.


VCore adjustments go from 1.3875V to 1.7375V. I would have loved to see some lower voltages as well. The FSB termination tracking voltage is selectable between 1.0V and 1.8V.


Up to 2.5V for DDR2 memory - this is DDR1 area. Make sure you have good cooling. The RAM OTES cooler will sure help.
Lowest setting here is 1.60V. VDDR VTT is automatically set to 1/2 VDDR when VDDR is changed, but can be manually adjusted between 0.8V and 1.8V.


The Northbridge voltage options range from 1.3V to 2.1V, and 2.3V to 3.0V for its 2.5V Voltage.


Certain usage statistics are also available here, a way to reset them to zero would be nice.

ABIT EQ Monitoring

When overclocking, it is important to monitor your system, to spot problems as early as possible. That's what the ABIT EQ page is for.


You can monitor CPU Temperature, System Temperature and the temperature of the four MOSFETs under the OTES.


Voltage monitoring lets you monitor all voltages you can change in the BIOS, and 3.3V, 5V and 12V supplied from the PSU.


Fan Speed monitoring shows you how fast your system's fans are spinning. I think monitoring and independantly controlling both OTES fans is a bit overkill.

An issue I found here, is that the "Shutdown enable" and "Beep Enable" settings for CPU fan default to on. At first this sounds like a good idea, but watercoolers will hate this setting.
As watercooler, every time you clear your CMOS, you get some very annoying loud beeping from your system until you turn this option back off. Sometimes the system does not even start. A better solution would be to ignore this setting when the CMOS is cleared, or to default it to disable and just watch CPU temperatures. All Pentium4 CPUs have built-in thermal protection anyways.

ABIT FanEQ

FanEQ control allows to exactly define a temperature when which fan turns on and how fast its speed ramps up depending on temperature.



Another issue for watercoolers here: After CMOS reset the setting for the OTES fans is to control the fan based on CPU temperature. With watercooling the CPU temperature will always be low, so the fan never starts. After a few minutes of high CPU load, the MOSFETS are getting hot, your CPU is cool - the OTES fans are off - the annoying beep alarm will start and not end until you set the "Reference Temperature" setting to "PWM Average Temp." which makes much more sense than "CPU Temperature", in all cases I can think of.