BIOS Features (cont’d)

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Getting at the memory options now we see that Asus has quite a few of them.  Here we have 1T memory timing labeled to be unambiguous.

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Here are the remaining memory timings in their entirety.  You can see that besides the standard four settings (CL, TRAS, TRP, TRCD) there are many more options for tweaking.

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In this menu you can see you have the ability to change the HyperTransport bus speed multipliers (though in this BIOS revision they are listed as speeds and not multipliers) and the HT bus widths.  Both the CPU HT link and the SB to NB link can be edited in this way.

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Here Asus allows you to select which PCI Express slot you wish to be the primary slot for booting purposes.

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This menu has the options for enabling and disabling the on-board feature set.

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Finally, here is the hardware monitoring section with the available temperatures, fan speeds and voltages to be viewed.

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