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Contents
5.2.2 Drivers menu ................................................................... 5-2
5.2.3 Utilities menu .................................................................. 5-3
5.2.4 Make Disk menu ............................................................. 5-5
5.2.5 Manual menu .................................................................. 5-6
5.2.6 ASUS Contact information .............................................. 5-6
5.2.7 Other information ............................................................ 5-7
5.3 Software information ................................................................... 5-9
5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo2™ ........................................................... 5-9
5.3.2 ASUS PC Probe II ..........................................................5-11
5.3.3 ASUS AI Suite ............................................................... 5-17
5.3.4 ASUS EPU Utility -- AI Gear 3
+
..................................... 5-19
5.3.5 ASUS AI Nap ................................................................ 5-21
5.3.6 ASUS Q-Fan 2 .............................................................. 5-22
5.3.7 ASUS AI Booster ........................................................... 5-23
5.3.8 AI Audio 2 (SoundMAX
®
High Denition Audio utility) ... 5-24
5.3.9 ASUS Express Gate ..................................................... 5-33
5.4 RAID congurations .................................................................. 5-40
5.4.1 RAID denitions ............................................................ 5-40
5.4.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations........................................ 5-41
5.4.3 Marvell
®
eSATA RAID congurations ............................ 5-48
5.4.4 Marvell
®
SAS RAID congurations ................................ 5-54
5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 5-63
5.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 5-63
5.5.2 Creating a SATA RAID driver disk in Windows
®
............ 5-63
Chapter 6: NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology support
6.1 Overview ....................................................................................... 6-1
Requirements ................................................................................. 6-1
6.2 Graphics card setup .................................................................... 6-2
6.2.1 Installing three SLI-ready graphics cards ........................ 6-2
6.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards .......................... 6-5
6.2.3 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 6-6
6.2.4 Enabling the NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology in Windows
®
.... 6-6
Appendix: CPU features
A.1 Intel
®
EM64T ..................................................................................A-1