BIOS Walkthrough

The Gigabyte A75-UD4H has a old "standard layout" inside the BIOS, providing an interface that is both simple, and easy to use. There are no flashy UEFI graphics, nor mouse support, but even so, the layout that greets you on the main page is very aptly labeled, and to our delight, has the important part, the tweaking section, first and foremost.
Once inside the "Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker" section, We find all the needed voltage and clock options to overclock, as well as a few extra options whose functionality, at this point, is a bit suspect, but may relate to future planned "unlocked" AMD APUs. The memory section is quite thorough too, offering enough options that allowed us to scale up the memory frequency fairly high; in fact, much higher than we had ever expected. We've included two images showing the options available, just because there was so much offered here.


The remaining pages, of course, hold a lot of board-specific options, such as chipset options, date and time settings, as well as a host of other features commonly found on all motherboards.


The devices page itself offers a fair bit of options, but rightly so, given the added extra components the Gigabyte A75-UD4H has. The "Power Options" page leads to standard stuff, as does the PC health page, where you can also find options for PWM or manually controlled fan speeds.

All of that just about sums up the BIOS. It's simple, doesn't contain a lot, but does the job near perfectly. We would have perhaps enjoyed a UEFI implementation like we've seen on other products, that offer a few things like mouse support, and the option to capture BIOS screenshots easily, but because the A75-UD4H is so modestly priced, yet packs a ton of features, we do find it hard to "knock" anything we've seen here. There are a few certain things, like CPU multipliers available that offer no performance boost, just like the NB multi options, yet at the same time, the BIOS comes ready to overclock, and does a pretty good job at ensuring that any overclocking is easy, and when things go wrong, the board quickly boots from the backup BIOS, leading us to never have to clear the CMOS because of a wrong setting. With that in mind, we have to give kudos to Gigabyte here, because they really did deliver with the A75-UD4H.