NVIDIA Dynamic BIOS
The Dynamic BIOS section of the new control panel allows the user to access those BIOS settings that require a reboot to take affect; though having access to them in Windows is still a worthy feature. 

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The first BIOS page is the BIOS Features page that has access to settings like quick POST, APIC mode and the full screen BIOS logo.

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Chipset Features 1 page has access to some overclocking settings like the CPU multiplier, HyperTransport bus multipliers and even settings for SLI Memory. Some of these options are accessible both here and in the Performance segment without a reboot: PCIe bus speeds for example. 

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The second page in the Chipset Features menu offers up more tweaks to the voltages throughout the system a well as access to the NVMEM memory test and CPU features like virtualization and SpeedStep. 

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You can enable and disable any or all of the motherboard peripherals here.

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Finally, to round out the BIOS control, you can access the power management options like ACPI and wake-on-LAN.

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