BIOS Features (cont’d)
There is an option at the top of this screen labeled “Extreme OV” that needs to be set to enabled to allow you to set the voltages to their absolute highest settings; this is a much better option than the jumpers that the ASUS P6T Deluxe uses in my opinion.
In red you can see the highest level for all our voltages – obviously you’ll likely want to stay away from these numbers most of the time but they are here if you are bold!
In red you can see the highest level for all our voltages – obviously you’ll likely want to stay away from these numbers most of the time but they are here if you are bold!
Here are some more reference voltage adjustments for the DRAM.
You can decide if you want to enable keyboard support of the TweakIt system in addition to the on-board toggle switches here.
The 2nd and 3rd PCI Express 2.0 connections sourced from the north bridge can be adjusted according to your specific needs – either two x8’s for 3-Way SLI or CrossFireX or x16 and x1 for standard two card multi-GPU support.
Here are the controls for the LCD POSTER device including disabling the backlight, what it shows as its “screensaver”, etc. You can also enabled/disable the various lights on the motherboard as well!
You can change what occurs during a crashed BIOS here and either switch to the other BIOS chip or try to reset the current one.
The system monitor on the Rampage II Extreme is VERY robust and the voltages being monitored are pretty much all encompassing.
Temperatures are also well monitored here and you can set the overheat protection limits for each temp individually.
Fan speed monitoring is the third piece of the puzzle…
…and fan speed control is the final.
Here you can label each BIOS chip separately and force a boot from one or the other regardless of which BIOS you are actually in at the time.
More awesome tools from ASUS include the EZ Flash integrated BIOS flashing utility and the ability to save profiles within a single BIOS.
This is by far the most robust setup for BIOS profiles we have seen on a motherboard.
Finally, the BIOS Flashback tool allows you to copy one BIOS to another for backup purposes and edit their descriptions.
Shew, that was a LOT of BIOS to go through but I think you’ll have to agree with me that the ASUS Rampage II Extreme has far and away the strongest set of BIOS options on any motherboard for any platform.
Shew, that was a LOT of BIOS to go through but I think you’ll have to agree with me that the ASUS Rampage II Extreme has far and away the strongest set of BIOS options on any motherboard for any platform.
