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5.2.3 Utilities menu .......................................................... 5-3

5.2.4 Make Disk menu ...................................................... 5-4

5.2.5 Manuals menu ......................................................... 5-5

5.2.6 ASUS Contact information ...................................... 5-6

5.2.7 Other information ................................................... 5-6

5.3 Software information ........................................................... 5-9

5.3.1 ASUS MyLogo2™ .................................................... 5-9

5.3.2 AI NET 2 ............................................................... 5-11

Using the Virtual Cable Tester™ ........................... 5-11

5.3.3 Audio configurations ............................................ 5-12

5.3.4 Using the NVIDIA

Firewall™ ................................. 5-18

5.4 RAID configurations ............................................................ 5-21

5.4.1 Installing hard disks .............................................. 5-22

5.4.2 NVIDIA

RAID configurations ................................ 5-23

5.4.3 Silicon Image RAID configurations ........................ 5-30

5.5 Creating a RAID driver disk ................................................. 5-37

Chapter 6: Chapter 6:

Chapter 6:

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SLI™ technology support SLI™ technology support

SLI™ technology support

6.1 Overview............................................................................... 6-1

Requirements ....................................................................... 6-1

6.2 Dual graphics card setup ...................................................... 6-2

6.2.1 Setting the ASUS EZ selector card ......................... 6-2

6.2.2 Installing SLI-ready graphics cards ......................... 6-4

6.2.3 Setting the SLI mode in BIOS ................................. 6-8

6.2.4 Installing the device drivers .................................... 6-8

6.2.5 Enabling the multi-GPU feature in Windows ............ 6-8

Appendix: Appendix:

Appendix:

CPU featuresCPU features

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