The BIOS
Like all new motherboards ASUS us using a graphical UEFI BIOS. That means you can use both your mouse and keyboard for easy navigation. ASUS has added some great features into their Z87 BIOS’s so check out our video overview of the BIOS below.
While we did mention it in the video here are my favorite 3 main changes ASUS has done with their Z87 UEFI BIOS. The first is the BIOS setting change. Before you save your changes in the BIOS it will pop up a screen that will show you all of the changes that you have made.
Next is the quick note. Here you can actually take notes right in the BIOS. So if you are changing settings or overclocking you can save these notes so they are always accessible in the BIOS.
Finally we have the My Favorites tab. Don’t you hate going through all of the menus to change settings in the BIOS? Don’t you wish all of the settings you normally change were on one page? Well that is what the My Favorites tab is for. You can add any setting in the BIOS to this page for easy access.
In Japan this (pretty good) board (with over a dozen software updates online already [complicating things]) only gets a ONE YEAR Warranty; via the Official Amazon ASUS Retailer.
I bought one and went to register it in English (and to join the owners club for added content); but was refused as there is no registration code. ASUS will not supply us in Japan/Asia with a 5-year warranty on paper (there is NO WARRANTY CARD supplied with the board as you get in USA/Europe/Australia/New Zealand/Canada/Russia etc).
We are discriminated against as customers/consumers?
They wrote to me and indicated that `IF` there is an international problem with the boards that I might have the right to claim a replacement board during the five years; but that would be difficult to process.
We get a ONE Year LIMITED Warranty here.
The Official ASUS Amazon retailer actually only provides a ONE MONTH IMMEDIATE REPLACEMENT WARRANTY if the board fails.
After that we have to go to ASUS direct; and that is hard; due to customers getting NO WARRANTY CARD and NO REGISTRATION Number.
So; the MARKETING IS MISLEADING.
They blamed me for reading in English on an English site for any oversight (via e-mails).
If you can read chinese~Japanese KANJI they may have their claims on ASUS Japan; but I dont read the near impossible; especially anything technical that fluent Japanese mostly cannot understand in computing either.