BIOS
After installing the motherboard and booting it up, the first thing to do is see what kind of options we can play with in the BIOS. The VNF3-250 is running what seems to be a standard Phoenix BIOS, so the interface should be easy to understand for those of you who are familiar with this type of BIOS.
If you're like me, the first thing you check out is the performance/overclocking utilities that a motherboard may have. In the Frequency/Voltage control tab, we find loads of tools that will help us get the maximum performance out of our system ranging from CPU frequency, AGP frequency, DRAM settings, and voltage controls for CPU, AGP bus, RAM, as well as your chipset.
Here we can see that you can change the clock speed on the CPU and on the AGP bus in 1MHz increments. The CPU Overclock menu will allow you to change the frequency from 200MHz to 400 MHz and the AGP one will allow you to change it from 66MHz all the way up to 85MHz. I tried as hard as I could, but I coudln't find any multiplier settings anywhere in the BIOS. Thinking I'd have to play with jumpers, i scoured the VNF3-250 in search for multiplier settings. Needless to say it was in vain. There are no multiplier settings for this motherboard.
I've never had this much control over voltage before in a BIOS. You can easily notice that the CPU core voltages are pretty much the same standard stuff you see everywhere else, as well as AGP and DIMM voltages. However, this is the first time I've ever seen the ability to play with the chipset voltage in the BIOS before.
