The bios on this board is fairly standard. The only really new thing is the "Genie" Bios. It's fairly straightforward. There are tons of options such as SATA enable or disable support, which means that if you want to use a SATA drive like me, you'll have to go enable it here. Also, the SATA drive replaces the Primary Master IDE drive, so you won't be able to use that extra hard drive. It makes it a little easier to install Windows though.

Benchmarks

Here's the specs on our test rig:

DFI Lanparty NFII Ultra Motherboard
AMD XP 1700+ JIUHB CPU
GeForce 4 TI 4800 128mb Video Card
Kingston PC2700 DDR 512MB Ram
Western Digital Raptor 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache SATA Hard Drive
Windows XP Professional SP 1

For the Dual Channel test, we use 2 sticks of OCZ PC 3200 256 DDR

For the most part, the benchmarks scores speak for themselves. Take a look.

Sisoft Sandra: CPU Arithmetic Benchmark

Sisoft Sandra: Sound Card

Sisoft Sandra: Mainboard Info

Sisoft Sandra: CPU & Bios Info

Sisoft Sandra: System Cache Info

Sisoft Sandra: Filesystem Info

Sisoft Sandra: Memory Bandwidth Info