While CIA is fine and good for the novice user, the more experienced overclocker will certainly turn that feature off. For our tests we slowly started to raise the FSB; 205MHz and 210 MHz came and went very easily. At 213 MHz FSB we had a few stability problems and had to raise the memory voltage to 2.8V to stabilize things.

We continued in our overclocking journey and at 217 MHz FSB we ran into problems yet again this time we had to raise the CPU voltage to 1.6V to keep everything happy.

At 223 MHz FSB it seems the Corsair XMS3500CAS2 DIMM's maxed out and we had to enable the 5:4 memory divider. In the end the board seemed to be a pretty decent overclocker, hitting a maximum speed at 230 MHz FSB.

By default Gigabyte hides the Advanced Chipset Features, to enable access to them one must first press CTRL+F1. Once inside we have all the usual memory tweaks we'd expect from a motherboard: CAS Latency, Active to Precharge Delay and RAS to CAS.

At the bottom we have our i865PE/i875P options like Command Per Clock, Fast Chip Select and Dynamic Paging. MIB is Gigabyte's name for PAT and you can enable or disable it. During testing it was enabled and the board ran flawlessly.

The motherboard has the FSB speeds from 100-355 MHz in 1 MHz increments. You can independently tune the AGP/PCI/SRC and you also have the usual memory dividers. Memory voltage can go as high as 2.8V, AGP to 1.8V and CPU to 1.76V.