BIOS
Rather than have stacks of pictures I put together a basic video that just goes through and clicks on each menu option in the BIOS so if there is anything you want to check out you can see it and pause when needed. The BIOS for the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi opened up on the EZ-Mode page which is good to see. Often this is the only page a user will need to visit and that is because you can check to make sure your memory is picked up, check the status of fans, turn on XMP or Expo for your memory, and change the boot priority. Asus even makes that last one easy to do with drag and drop. You can also use a simple EZ system tuning option here for a basic overclock as well and get into QFan to tune your fan profiles. Even as a power user, this is all I will dive into on a lot of builds.
You can then go to the advanced mode down on the bottom to get to other BIOS features. This is what you would expect from a traditional BIOS, only you can still use a mouse and navigate things. I do have to say that both in the EZ Mode and Advanced mode, they are looking better. Asus has upgraded to HD resolutions and it shows!The landing page here is the Main tab and this shows your BIOS version and CPU and you can change the language and time. Next up however is the Ai Tweaker which these days might make you think it is AI related, but this is Asus’s normal name for their overclocking settings. Here you can set the main overclocking settings all right up at the top. Then as you scroll down you start to get into the more detailed options. The only thing missing really, and this is something I have said for a while now. But I feel like the AMD CPU-specific pages like the AMD CBS menu should also be in the Ai Tweaker section but you will find all of those under the advanced tab. Speaking of that tab this is where you will get into setting pages for all of the features on the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi. You have PCI subsystem pages, USB, networking, NVMe, SATA, Hard drive, and more all gathered up in this section.
From there the next tab is the Monitor section. This has pages for temperature monitoring, fan speed monitoring, voltage monitoring, and also the Q-Fan tool’s options which is always a little weird that those aren’t just on the Q-Fan page. The Boot tab is exactly what you would expect, all of the startup options including changing your boot order, fast bootup, and similar options. Last up is the Tool page. This is where useful tools like Asus Secure Erase for wiping hard drives are hidden away. You also have the EZ Flash 3 utility for BIOS flashing and a few other cool tools like Q-Dashboard that lets you see a picture of the TUF Gaming X870-Plus Wifi and mouse over things to see what it is and its status. On the far right side on all of the advanced mode pages you have CPU details like frequency, temperature, BCLK speed, and information on the prediction settings are all shown. Then up top, there are a few options always available like the Aura lighting options to turn all lighting off, ReSize BAR setting, and QFan which opens up and lets you tune your fan profiles. Then at the end, when you save any changes you have made are all listed. This is big if you are just exploring and changing something without noticing that you did it.
