Advanced Menu

Advanced Menu – Performance Options

Performance

Allows you to configure fields in the Performance

Options

Options sub-menu (for more information, see

 

“Advanced Menu – Performance Options“ on page 34).

Overclocking Feature

Allows you to enable or disable the global overclocking feature.

Disabled: The overclocking feature is disabled.

SATA Operation

SATA HARD

DRIVE 1

SATA HARD

DRIVE 2

Adapter

Warnings

Charger

Behavior

Primary Display

Allows you to configure the operating mode of the integrated SATA hard drive controller.

AHCI: SATA is configured for AHCI mode.

RAID: SATA is configured for RAID mode.

Displays the installed primary SATA hard drive model.

Displays the installed secondary SATA hard drive model.

Allows you to choose if the computer should display warning messages when you use AC adapters that are not supported by your computer.

Disabled: BIOS will not detect unsupported AC adapters and will not display any message to screen.

Enabled : BIOS will detect unsupported AC adapters and display an error to screen.

Allows you to enable or disable battery charging.

Allows you to choose a primary display.

Non-Turbo

Flex Support

Flex Ratio

Override

Extreme Edition

Extreme Edition

Core Ratio

Limits

Memory Override

Support

Memory

Voltage

Memory

Frequency

Enabled: Displays additional overclocking options.

Allows you to modify the CPU flex ratio with Turbo Mode disabled.

Appears when Non-Turbo Flex is enabled and allows you to specify the flex ratio for all CPU cores.

Allows Extreme Edition CPUs to adjust the flex ratio in a Turbo Mode environment that allows each individual core ratio to be modified.

Allows you to modify the flex ratio of individual cores physically present in the CPU.

Allows you to enable or disable the memory override option support.

Disabled: The memory override support is disabled.

Enabled: Displays additional memory override support options.

Allows you to modify memory voltage.

Allows you to modify memory frequency.

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