Within the BIOS setup screens Abit has incorporated information and summaries of each switch's function to the right of each manual switch. At first glance the menus look virtually the same as what we're all used to seeing in other Award-based BIOS, but once a sub-menu is selected in the BF6's BIOS, more data is presented about what is exactly the purpose of the switch.

Also, like the two BE6 boards Abit has added unique "suggestions" within their Soft Menu III BIOS when it deals with manual CPU settings, to assist the user in making the right decisions.

For example, if a user selects a 133MHz front side bus speed for their CPU to run on, the BIOS immediately highlights both the AGP clock ratio divider and the PCI clock ratio divider so as to warn the user to change both of these settings to more conservative levels, thereby helping the user achieve the overclock.

We like the constant improvements that we've seen evolve in Abit's mainboards, as they really have made the arcane art of overclocking a CPU easy enough that a even a neophyte can successfully experiment with faster speeds.

An example of Abit's commitment to overclocking lies in the selectable bus speed settings available to users. In total, there are 119 individual front side bus settings at which users can run their CPU, and most are in 1MHz increments.

Here's the breakdown: