BIOS Walkthrough

The Gigabyte P67A-UD4-B3's hybrid Award BIOS offers a high level of granularity, with all adjustable frequency and voltage options offering minute adjustments not seen on competitor's products. Above is a table of the critical options, and the granularity provided; let's take a look.


Users who have previous experience with Gigabyte motherboards will feel right at home inside the new hybrid EFI bios. Featuring the same layout as non-EFI BIOSes, the menus are well organized into sections that help decode the plentiful options users have to play with. The very first menu item on the opening page leads into the "Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker" page, from which all frequency and voltage controls are available. There is also a page dedicated to displaying the board's current settings for both CPU and memory, an easy way to confirm settings have adjusted properly after user input, without having to boot all the way into an operating system.


As you can see in the pages above, Gigabyte equipped the P67A-UD4-B3's BIOS with every basic setting needed, including a few only advanced users will need as well. From independent individual channel timings, all the way to a couple of voltage options only needed in very specific situations, we find ourselves right at home inside Gigabyte's hybrid EFI Award bios, and feel confident the majority of users will as well.


Frequency and voltage options aren't the only things available with the P67A-UD4-B3, either. Options to disable unneeded integrated peripherals, drive settings, and even some power management options are all here, ensuring that every user has access to what they need to get the maximum performance they desire, as well as ensuring full compatibility with the majority of add-on components. Every option we looked for when overclocking we found, and the intelligent layout meant that we didn't have to look very hard either. While not a complete UEFI BIOS as featured on some other P67 products, we were left filled with confidence in what Gigabyte has provided in the P67A-UD4-B3's hybrid BIOS, 100 percent.


Rounding out the functionality is a monitoring page, where you can see live voltage readings, and adjust CPU fan settings, but this is one area we would have liked to have seen a few more customizable options, as with four fan headers, customization of interior case airflow must be done via other devices separate from the board itself. However, with the added ability to flash the board's BIOS from directly within the BIOS' pages, thanks to the Q-Flash technology built right in, we quickly forgot about the shortcomings, and updated the board to the most recent BIOS available from Gigabyte's website before we began our testing.