BIOS/UEFI
At the first look, BIOS/UEFI looks simple and it is if you only want to make your PC run at standard settings. If you wish to try your luck in overlocking then you will quickly find out there are a lot of options and you won’t even know what some of them are affecting. For enthusiasts and overclockers it means a lot of fun.
We’ve received the X370 Gaming-ITX before Ryzen APU premiere so to make it run we had to update BIOS/UEFI. All motherboards in stores should be already updated. ASRock put a lot of work in preparing all on time even though AMD released new AGESA way to late. Because of delays on the AMD side, there are little issues with last official BIOS release, what in our case is only wrong CPU temperature.
The latest beta BIOS/UEFI is L4.43 which at least for us is fully stable and shows temperature and voltages correctly. I guess that soon will be released official version which contains all patches.
Let’s take a look at the BIOS/UEFI.
MAIN TAB
Simply first screen you will see in BIOS. Will tell you basic info about the hardware like CPU type or memory capacity but you can also check your BIOS/UEFI version.
OC TWEAKER
Here you can find most settings regarding overclocking. All enthusiasts will be happy to see various options. This motherboard has really high overclocking potential as long as you know what are you doing.
The only weird thing is that memory frequency list is available only when memory has enabled XMP. I’m not sure if overclocking will be possible if memory won’t have XMP profile as all memory kits that I own have additional profiles. On the other hand most memory series have XMP/DOCP profiles so even lower frequency memory kits can be overclocked. As we will show later, this motherboard really makes memory fly and is one of the best options for AMD Ryzen if we wish to use high memory frequency.
ADVANCED
Advanced tab contains many obvious but also many complicated settings. I won’t hide that I’m not sure how to set some of them and I’m considering myself as quite advanced user. Just take a look at the list and you will know what I mean. For some users it will be heaven as not many motherboards let to set so many various options.
One example can be quite basic option of memory assigned to the integrated graphics processor. Most competition won’t let to set more than 2GB. The X370 Gaming ITX will let to assign up to 16GB of memory. I’m not sure who or for what would use so much memory but it’s possible.
TOOL
This tab will let to update BIOS and use couple of other features. Can be handy, especially to play with LED lighting.
H/W MONITOR
In this tab we can check voltages, temperatures and manage fan speed. There are a couple of modes so it’s easy to set perfect fan speed or set automatic speed regarding temperature of various components.
SECURITY
Security so simply all options which let to set passwords and keep away other users from your data.
BOOT
Boot options are well-known and we can find similar window on most modern motherboards. We can choose legacy or UEFI mode for drives.
EXIT
Last window will let us to save settings or discard them and leave UEFI.
