User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Safety information
- Chapter 1: Product Introduction
- Chapter 2: Basic Installation
- Chapter 3: BIOS Setup
- 3.1 Knowing BIOS
- 3.2 BIOS setup program
- 3.3 My Favorites
- 3.4 Main menu
- 3.5 Extreme Tweaker menu
- 3.6 Advanced menu
- 3.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 3.6.2 Platform Misc Configuration
- 3.6.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration
- 3.6.4 ROG Effects
- 3.6.5 PCH Configuration
- 3.6.6 PCH Storage Configuration
- 3.6.7 USB Configuration
- 3.6.8 Network Stack Configuration
- 3.6.9 Onboard Devices Configuration
- 3.6.10 APM Configuration
- 3.6.11 HDD/SDD SMART Information
- 3.6.12 Intel(R) ThunderBolt
- 3.6.1 CPU Configuration
- 3.7 Monitor menu
- 3.8 Boot menu
- 3.9 Tool menu
- 3.10 Exit menu
- 3.11 Updating BIOS
- Chapter 4: Software Support
- 4.1 Installing an operating system
- 4.2 Support DVD information
- 4.3 Software information
- 4.4 AI Suite 3
- 4.5 Dual Intelligent Processors 5
- 4.6 ROG Audio features
- 4.7 Sonic Radar II
- 4.8 GameFirst III
- 4.9 KeyBot II
- 4.10 ASUS Media Streamer
- 4.11 RAMDisk
- 4.12 MemTweakIt
- 4.13 ROG CPU-Z
- 4.14 RAMCache
- 4.15 Lighting Control
- Chapter 5: RAID Support
- Appendix
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Chapter 3: BIOS Setup
Chapter 3
When the Ai Overclock Tuner is set to [Manual] or [XMP], the following items appear.
BCLK Frequency [100]
This item allows you to set the BCLK (base clock) frequency to enhance the system
performance. Use the <+> or <-> to adjust the value. The values range from 40.0 MHz
to 500.0 MHz.
When Ai Overclock Tuner is set to [XMP], the XMP mode supported by the installed
memory module is displayed.
ASUS MultiCore Enhancement [Auto]
[Auto] This item allows you to maximize the oveclocking performance optimized
by ASUS core ratio settings.
[Disabled] This item allows you to set to default core ratio settings.
CPU Core Ratio [Sync All Cores]
This item allows you to set the CPU core ratio limit per core or synchronize automatically to
all cores.
Conguration options: [Auto] [Sync All Cores] [Per Core]
When the CPU Core Ratio is set to [Synch All Cores], the following item appears:
1-Core Ratio Limit [Auto]
Select [Auto] to apply the CPU default Turbo Ratio setting or manually
assign a 1-Core Limit value that must be higher than or equal to the 2-Core
Ratio Limit.
When the CPU Core Ratio is set to [Per Core], the following item appears:
1-Core Ratio Limit [Auto]
Select [Auto] to apply the CPU default Turbo Ratio setting or manually
assign a 1-Core Limit value that must be higher than or equal to the 2-Core
Ratio Limit.
2-Core Ratio Limit [Auto]
Select [Auto] to apply the CPU default Turbo Ratio setting or manually
assign a 2-Core Limit value that must be higher than or equal to the 3-Core
Ratio Limit.
3-Core Ratio Limit [Auto]
Select [Auto] to apply the CPU default Turbo Ratio setting or manually
assign a 3-Core Limit value that must be higher than or equal to the 4-Core
Ratio Limit.
4-Core Ratio Limit [Auto]
Select [Auto] to apply the CPU default Turbo Ratio setting or manually
assign a 4-Core Limit value that must be higher than or equal to the 3-Core
Ratio Limit.
If you assign a value for more Core Ratio Limit, do not set the less Core Ratio Limit to
[Auto].