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Contents
4.3.9 ASUS AI Direct Link ...................................................... 4-28
4.3.10 Audio congurations .....................................................
4-30
4.3.11 ASUS Drive Xpert .........................................................
4-34
4.3.12 ASUS Express Gate .....................................................
4-45
4.4 RAID congurations ..................................................................
4-55
4.4.1 RAID denitions ............................................................
4-55
4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks .....................................
4-56
4.4.3 Intel
®
RAID congurations ............................................. 4-56
4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk .......................................................
4-64
4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS ....
4-64
4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
®
...................... 4-64
Appendix: CPU features
A.1 Intel
®
EM64T ..................................................................................A-1
Using the Intel
®
EM64T feature ......................................................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
Using the Hyper-Threading Technology ........................................A-3