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1.1.4ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution

ASUS Fanless Design: stylish heatsink solution

The stylish heatsink features a 0-dB thermal solution that offers you a noiseless PC environment. The heatsink design also lowers the temperature of the chipset and power phase area through high efficient heat-exchange. Combined with usability and aesthetics, the ASUS stylish heatsink will give you an extremely silent and cooling experience with its elegant appearance.

ASUS Fan Xpert 3

ASUS Fan Xpert 3 provides customizable settings for a cooler and quieter computing environment. With its Fan Auto Tuning feature, ASUS Fan Xpert 3 automatically detects and tweaks all fan speeds, and provides you with optimized fan settings based on the fans’ specifications and positions.

1.1.5ASUS EZ DIY

ASUS Q-Design

ASUS Q-Design enhances your DIY experience. All of Q-Slot, Q-DIMM, Q-Connector and Q-Shield design speed up and simplify the DIY process.

ASUS UEFI BIOS

ASUS UEFI BIOS, a UEFI compliant architecture, offers the first mouse-controlled intuitive graphical BIOS interface that goes beyond the traditional keyboard-only BIOS controls, providing you with more flexibility, convenience, and easy to navigate UEFI BIOS than the traditional BIOS versions. It offers you with dual selectable modes and native support for hard drives larger than 2.2 TB.

ASUS UEFI BIOS includes the following new features:

•New My Favorite function allows you to quickly access to the frequently used items

•New Quick Note function allows you to take notes in the BIOS environment

•New log reminder allows you to view all your modified settings

•F12 BIOS snapshot hotkey

•F3 Shortcut for most accessed information

•ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) information detecting faulty DIMMs, and helping with difficult POST situations.

1.1.6Other special features

DisplayPort Support

DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard, providing billions of colors and bidirectional communications, thus enabling the fastest refresh rates, and the highest resolution digital display through a single cable. Also, it supports HDCP copy protection for Blu-ray discs. Simply output 3D signals through the connected DisplayPort cable with your 3D display, then you can sit back and enjoy a perfect 3D animation experience.

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Chapter 1: Product introduction