ECS A785GM-AD3 AM3 Black Series motherboard review

BIOS

ECS uses an AMIBIOS. I have made a walkthrough video of the BIOS which can be watched below.

A lot of settings are available that you would use for overclocking your hardware. All the overclocking settings are organized neatly in a menu called the MIB II (Motherboard Intelligent BIOS II). Voltages and bus speeds can all be set from here. One quirk that I found with the board was with overclocking. The board does not allow for the saving of different overclocking profiles. As a result after each failed overclock, and resetting the CMOS this is what you are treated to:

Yes, you have to set all the settings again. Even the date and time. Had it not been for the ingenious Reset CMOS button on the motherboard, I would have been more irritated.

Another quirk in the BIOS is that the default NB voltage is set to +30mV, while the default SB voltage is set to 1.25V instead of the lowest possible value 1.20V. This just consumes extra energy, if you plan on running such a setup at stock settings.

eJiffy

ECS includes a Linux based quick booting operating system with this motherboard. The setup can be downloaded from here. Once installed in windows, user can set the BIOS option to enable eJiffy. Then a menu will popup, as seen in the video below, allowing you to choose between booting the operating system or eJiffy. eJiffy provides an easy way to surf the web, view photos or chat without booting up windows. As seen in the video below, you can very easily watch Full-HD videos on youtube.