“Over-Clocking Navigator” parameter can be set to “Automate OverClock” and in this case you can select one of the three preset overclocking profiles: “V6-Tech Engine”, “V8-Tech Engine» or “V12-Tech Engine”. In this case the base clock frequency will be increased to 135, 140 or 145 MHz accordingly. However, you can only get full access to all settings when you select “Manual OverClock” mode.

I assume you don’t have any questions about this section, everything should be pretty clear from the parameter names. Now we can increase the base clock, change the processor clock frequency multiplier and memory frequency. We should only check out a few remaining sub-sections. There is a separate “DRAM Timing Configuration” page where you can check out the current memory timings and adjust them to your liking if necessary.

The “Clock Gen Configuration” sub-section contains parameters related to the chipset operation.

The “Voltage Control” sub-section allows you not only to change voltages. Here you again see the current voltage settings and even temperatures, so that you don’t have to check them again in the “Hardware Health Configuration” section.

As for the actual voltages, the safe values are highlighted green, higher values – yellow, and dangerous values – red. Note that we do not set the actual processor Vcore here, but add the desired value to the nominal. In other words, even when you overclock your CPU by increasing its Vcore we should still have all Intel processor power-saving technologies up and running. There is also a parameter called “CPU Load Line” preventing the CPU voltage drop under heavy load.

The page called “Intel PPM Configuration” contains the parameters that disappeared from the “CPU Configuration” section and allow you to choose the processor power-saving mode.

Now to wind up our discussion of the Biostar TPower I55 BIOS features we only have to check out one more section called “Exit”.

Besides standard features, such as loading optimal BIOS settings, saving and exiting, or exiting without saving, you can also save and quickly load up to ten full BIOS settings profiles of your own. The date and time the profile was saved will be marked automatically, but you can also give the profiles their own unique names and descriptions.

I don’t know about you, but I am genuinely impressed with the functionality of Biostar TPower I55 BIOS. We have already come across all these parameters on other mainboards one way or another, but I can’t recall a single solution where we would see all of them together. We can change frequencies, timings and voltages, may select preset overclocking profiles, adjust processor cooling fan rotation speed and calibrate it, enable brand name power-saving technologies, save settings profiles with unique descriptive names, even turn off the speaker-beeper… You can check the timings recorded in the modules SPD and launch the built-in memory test. One has to get used to the parameters names and location, but the BIOS is overall very informative and extremely convenient to work with. I can’t think of anything that is missing in Biostar TPower I55 BIOS: everything you might ever need is right there, even more. Of course, we still have to see how all these functions actually work, but at this point there could be only one verdict: excellent!