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4.3.10 ThunderBolt Audio ........................................................ 4-31
4.3.11 Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 ............................................. 4-35
4.4 RAID congurations .................................................................. 4-38
4.4.1 RAID denitions ............................................................ 4-38
4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks ..................................... 4-39
4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ...................................... 4-39
4.4.4 AMD
®
Option ROM Utility .............................................. 4-40
4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 4-43
4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 4-43
4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
®
...................... 4-43
4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during
Windows
®
OS installation ..................................... .........4-44
4.5.4 Using a USB oppy disk drive ....................................... 4-45
Chapter 5: Multiple GPU technology support
5.1 ATI
®
CrossFireX™ technology .................................................... 5-1
5.1.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-1
5.1.2 Before you begin ............................................................. 5-1
5.1.3 Installing CrossFireX graphics cards .............................. 5-2
5.1.4 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-3
5.1.5 Enabling the ATI
®
CrossFireX™ technology ................... 5-3
5.2 NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology ........................................................... 5-5
5.2.1 Requirements .................................................................. 5-5
5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards .......................... 5-5
5.2.3 Installing the device drivers ............................................. 5-6
5.2.4 Enabling the NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology ......................... 5-6
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