Review: AMD 690G chipset and EQS's retail board - Mainboard - HEXUS.net

BIOS thoughts

Item	Adjustment
HT reference clock	200MHz to 440MHz in 1MHz steps
HT multiplier	200/400/600/800MHz/1GHz
DRAM frequency	DDR2-400/533/667/800
CPU voltage	1.000v to CPU MAX (1.35V) in 0.025v steps
CPU multiplier	x5 to CPU MAX (x13) in x1 steps
Graphics Memory Clock	200/250/266/300/333/350MHz
DRAM voltage	1.800V to 2.10V in 0.1V steps
PCI-Express frequency	100MHz to 200MHz in 1MHz steps
NB voltage	1.20V to 1.35v in 0.05V steps

Discussion

Motherboards with integrated graphics usually miss out on the wide range of options present in enthusiast boards. The EQS model, however, has all the basic items covered, including adjusting the asynchronous memory speed for the IGP. We'd like a bit more CPU juice and the ability to manually select the memory command rate, yet the EQS' BIOS can be considered reasonable for the target market.

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Testing notes

The integrated graphics run with memory speed at an effective 500MHz when set to sync mode. Setting any other option would lead to a different speed shown in Windows XP. Further, increasing the memory speed made no tangible differences in 3D IGP performance, either. Something for EQS to look at, perhaps?