BIOS Walkthrough

The UEFI BIOS that Biostar has equipped the Biostar Hi-Fi Z77X with is pretty standard fare for them right now. It has a very simple and straight-forward layout.


There's nothing too interesting in any of these sections. I must mention that there is no ability to capture screenshots with Biostar boards, so I had to set up my tripod and take pictures of my monitor to capture these images. There's definite room for growth here, but who really screenshots their BIOS? Not many people do. However, many do overclock, and that section, shown in the last image above, has grown considerably.


There are more frequency settings, more timings, and more voltages here than I had expected. Quite a few critical things that were missing on the TZ77XE4 are now here - ready to be tweaked with the Hi-Fi Z77X.


The last five images are all part of Biostar's overclocking section, and the one thing I have to say after taking a look at the last five images is that Biostar really needs to optimize the layout. Nearly five full screens of options are packed into one big, scrollable list.

Profile saving as well as a choice to manually boot from the installed drives are both roughly where you'd expect to find them once you get over to the exit screen. Overall, it's pretty good, but do all these new options work? Most of them work, but I found myself wanting a bit more from this Biostar board, although it might not be the BOIS...it might simply be because this board is only four layers thick.