Asus SABERTOOTH X79 - Page 5

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Contents
4.3 Software information ................................................................................. 4-3
4.3.1 AI Suite II
..................................................................................... 4-3
4.3.2 ASUS TUF Thermal Radar .........................................................
4-4
4.3.3 TurboV EVO ................................................................................
4-8
4.3.4 DIGI+ Power Control .................................................................
4-11
4.3.5 Sensor Recorder .......................................................................
4-13
4.3.6 USB 3.0 Boost
........................................................................... 4-14
4.3.7 ASUS SSD Caching ..................................................................
4-15
4.3.8 ASUS Update ............................................................................
4-16
4.3.9 MyLogo2 ...................................................................................
4-17
4.3.10 Audio congurations
.................................................................. 4-19
4.4 RAID congurations ................................................................................
4-20
4.4.1 RAID denitions ........................................................................
4-20
4.4.2 Installing Serial ATA hard disks .................................................
4-21
4.4.3 Setting the RAID item in BIOS ..................................................
4-21
4.4.4 Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology Option ROM utility ................ 4-21
4.4.5 Marvell RAID utility ....................................................................
4-25
4.5 Creating a RAID driver disk
..................................................................... 4-29
4.5.1 Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS ................
4-29
4.5.2 Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows
® ............................................................... 4-29
4.5.3 Installing the RAID driver during Windows
®
OS installation ...... 4-30
4.5.4 Using a USB oppy disk drive ...................................................
4-31
Chapter 5: Multiple GPU technology support
5.1 AMD
®
CrossFireX™ technology......................................... 5-1
5.1.1 Requirements ..............................................................................
5-1
5.1.2 Before you begin .........................................................................
5-1
5.1.3 Installing two CrossFireX™
graphics cards .........5-2
5.1.4 Installing the device drivers .........................................................
5-3
5.1.5 Enabling the AMD
®
CrossFireX™ technology ...... 5-3
5.2 NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology ......................................................................... 5-4
5.2.1 Requirements ..............................................................................
5-4
5.2.2 Installing two SLI-ready graphics cards ......................................
5-4
5.2.3 Installing the device drivers .........................................................
5-5
5.2.4 Enabling the NVIDIA
®
SLI™ technology ..................................... 5-5