BIOS Features (cont’d)
Here you can set the multiplier of the HyperTransport link between the processor and the north bridge, though Asus has them list as speeds. Here we know that 1 GHz = 5x multiplier; 800 MHz = 4x multiplier and so on.
The RD480 chipset configuration menu has only two options in it, one of them for setting your dual slot GPU configuration. In our testing, Auto didn’t seem to work very well and we had to physically set either single or dual video cards when testing out CrossFire.
The hardware monitoring on the board is pretty robust and matches what we have seen in other recent Asus BIOS.
The QFan control on the board allows you to set specific temperatures to turn on and off the processor heatink fan. I can’t say that I recommend turning it off completely ever, but okay…
The memory configuration window here shows you what your current memory settings are at, either from setting them in the BIOS before hand or via SPD settings.
Here we see all the memory settings options that the Asus A8R-MVP offers; a good line up with the major settings plus extras for the memory geeks that ultra-tweak.
Inside the User Config Mode you can find the command address timing mode that is necessary to set at 1T; it seemed that at default for all of our DIMMs it was setting at 2T.
