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- Date:
- Monday , January 01, 2007
- Author:
- Morry Teitelman
- Editor:
- Kyle Bennett
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ASUS P5N-E SLI
ASUS offers up an affordable motherboard from the new nForce 600 series family; the P5N-E SLI featuring the nForce 650i chipset. To put it plainly, this motherboard gave us awesome overclocking for the money spent.
BIOS (continued)
The Chipset submenu contains chipset specific related settings, including the HyperTransport bus speed and memory timing option. The HyperTransport bus speed is set through the LDT Frequency option via a series of multipliers. The actual bus speed can be determined by multiplying the selected multiplier setting and the currently set CPU FSB.
The system memory timing options are configurable through the Memory Timing Setting submenu.
The system memory timing options are configurable through the Memory Timing Setting submenu. The following timing options are user configurable: cas latency, RAS to CAS delay (shown as tRCD); RAS precharge delay (shown as rRP); active to precharge delay (shown as tRAS); command rate (shown as Command Per Clock(CMD)); RAS to RAS delay (shown as tRRD); row cycle time (shown as tRC); write recovery time (shown as tWR); write to read delay (shown as tWTR); refresh period (shown as tREF); read delay (shown as tRD); row refresh cycle delay (shown as tRFC); and asynchronous cas latency. Note that on the memory timings listed, the numerically lower setting forces more aggressive memory operation.
The Tools screen contains submenus for configuring various BIOS integrated ASUS specific features. The ASUS O.C. Profile submenu contains a number of menus for loading and saving BIOS settings in to 2 separate profiles. Through the Start O.C. Profile option, you have access to a graphical interface allowing BIOS settings loading from or saving to a file from any detected drive type device, including USB 2.0 devices. The ASUS EZ Flash 2 submenu contains a graphical BIOS flashing mechanism that has the ability to read and write BIOS files from any connected device, including USB 2.0 devices