BIOS Features
The Asus M2N32-SLI BIOS continues on Asus’ trend of developing very high end, tweaking configurations.
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.
The PCI Express bus can be increased up to 200 MHz, that’s twice the standard frequency.
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.
The Vcore options for the CPU are a bit of a let down though, only allowing the user to overclock to 1.5625v.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For the SB to NB communications, this voltage setting does the same thing as above.
Here you can adjust the voltage going to the PCI Express bus from the north bridge…
…and here you can for the south bridge lanes, but up to a higher 1.75v.
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.
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.
