Gigabyte gets smarter with Smart BIOS
GIGABYTE is one of the top manufacturers of consumer motherboards in the hardware industry today. In order to remain at the top you need to continually improvise on your product features. Doing exactly that, they are upping the memory capacities of the BIOS chips on its motherboards from 8MB to 16MB. The extra memory will allow GIGABYTE to add features like
- Smart DualBIOS
Smart DualBIOS not only allows double protection for the motherboard with two physical BIOS ROMs, it also includes a new feature that can record important passwords and dates. - Smart QuickBoot
Smart QuickBoot speeds up the system boot-up process and shortens the waiting time for entering the operating system, delivering greater efficiency for daily use. - Smart QuickBoost
Smart QuickBoost features quick and effortless CPU overclocking for novice and experienced users alike; users simply click on one of three levels of CPU performance levels [sic], and Smart QuickBoost automatically adjusts CPU performance. - Smart Recovery
Smart Recovery allows users to easily roll-back system settings to a previous known working status. Users can [simply] select the day, week or month without prior setup of a backup time flag. - Smart Recorder
Smart Recorder monitors and records the activities in a system such as the time when the PC was turned on/off or even when large data files were copied. - Smart TimeLock
Smart TimeLock allows parents to schedule time limits for their children to use the PC. It makes the rules simple by, e.g. being able to select different usage times for weekdays and weekends.
Most of the features are pretty self-explanatory, but Smart QuickBoot looks to be the most nifty feature as it allows the motherboard to bypass the lengthy power-on self test (POST), if the system boots successfully 3 times and the hardware configuration is unchanged. This should quicken those boot times.
Although AMD has blocked the fix to unlock cores on its tri-core Phenom II CPUs with the newer updates, GIGABYTE has kept the fix on its secondary BIOS chip. You can enable it by using the “Hybrid Mode in BIOS”. Here’s how it works
Source: Techreport
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