BIOS Features

The Asus M2N32-SLI BIOS continues on Asus’ trend of developing very high end, tweaking configurations.

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Want to overclock your new AM2 processor?  Asus looks like they are going to provide you with a lot of wiggle room starting off with the ability to move the CPU frequency up to 450 MHz.

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The PCI Express bus can be increased up to 200 MHz, that’s twice the standard frequency.

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Memory voltages can be increased up to 2.5v, a little bit higher than we saw on our recent Asus P5B Deluxe motherboard for the Intel Core 2 processors. 

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The Vcore options for the CPU are a bit of a let down though, only allowing the user to overclock to 1.5625v.

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If you have an FX processor, you can of course decrease or INCREASE your multiplier if you’d like, up to 25x as shown here.

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This setting is like a ‘boost’ for the CPU voltage, adding an extra 200mV to whatever you have adjusted it to above.  That would theoretically increase our maximum CPU voltage to 1.7625v, which is pretty good.

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Here Asus allows you to set the DDR2 termination voltage, but in relation to your established memory voltages by either 0.5x. or 0.6x.

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If are you going to be overclocking your CPU frequency speed, then you might need to adjust this voltage setting, up to 1.50v, for added stability.

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For the SB to NB communications, this voltage setting does the same thing as above. 

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Here you can adjust the voltage going to the PCI Express bus from the north bridge…

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…and here you can for the south bridge lanes, but up to a higher 1.75v. 

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While I am not sure what this voltage adjustment does, the ‘SB Standby’ description seems to indicate either a system standby mode or the stand by mode on the SB when features are not being used. 

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Interestingly, there is a setting in the BIOS for AMD Live! to be enabled or disabled…we are still trying to get official information on what this does.

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