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Contents
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 MyLogo3™ ...........................................................
5-9
5.3.2 AI NET2 .........................................................................
5-11
5.3.3 ASUS PC Probe II .........................................................
5-12
5.3.4 ASUS AI Suite ...............................................................
5-18
5.3.5 ASUS EPU Utility -- AI Gear 3 ......................................
5-20
5.3.6 ASUS AI Nap ................................................................
5-21
5.3.7 ASUS Q-Fan 2 ..............................................................
5-22
5.3.8 ASUS AI Booster ...........................................................
5-23
5.3.9 ASUS AI Direct Link ......................................................
5-24
5.3.10 AI Audio 2 (SoundMAX
®
High Denition Audio utility) ... 5-26
5.4 RAID congurations ..................................................................
5-35
5.4.1 RAID denitions ............................................................
5-35
5.4.2 NVIDIA
®
RAID congurations........................................ 5-36
5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk .......................................................
5-43
5.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS ....
5-43
5.5.2 Creating a RAID/SATA driver disk in Windows
®
............ 5-43
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
A.2 Enhanced Intel SpeedStep
®
Technology (EIST) ........................A-1
A.2.1 System requirements ......................................................
A-1
A.2.2 Using the EIST ................................................................
A-2
A.3 Intel
®
Hyper-Threading Technology ...........................................A-3