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AMD Athlon64 3200+ - ASUS K8V Deluxe
The Middle Grounds |
(Review by MS, November 3, 2003)
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BIOS
ASUS is using a similar American Megatrend Inc. (AMI) BIOS as in most of their latest boards, with the traditional blue-on-gray text. As usual, the menu is divided into the Main, Advanced, Power, Boot and Exit categories with most of the interesting stuff for performance tuning hidden in the Advanced sub-menu.
In general the structure of the BIOS GUI is ok. Since it is a new BIOS, however, some of the settings are in places where they are not expected. For reference we have listed below the entire directory tree of the "Advanced" sub page (except for listing the different IRQ settings and on-board devices).
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- CPU Configuration
- HyperTransport (HT) configuration
- HT Tristate Enable [Enabled / Disabled]
- CRC Flood Enable [Enabled / Disabled]
- HT Frequency [200 / 400 / 600 / 800 MHz]
- HT Data Width (Upstream) [8 bit / 16 Bit]
- HT Data Width (Downstream) [8 bit / 16 Bit]
- Memory Configuration
- Memory Configuration
- Memclock Mode [Auto / Limit]
- Memclock to CPU Ratio [1:1 / 4:3 / 3:2 / 5:3 / 2:1]
- Bank Interleaving [Auto / Disabled]
- CAS Latency [2 / 2.5 / 3]
- tRC [Auto / 7 - 13T]
- tRFC [Auto / 9 - 15T]
- tRCD [Auto / 2 - 6T]
- tWR [Auto / 2 / 3T]
- tRWT [Auto / 1 - 6T]
- tRAS [Auto / 5 - 15 T]
- tRP [Auto / 2 - 6T]
- DDR Clock Delay [Auto / 50 22 - 60 44]
- ECC Configuration
- Master ECC Enable [Enabled / Disabled]
- DRAM ECC Enable [Enabled / Disabled]
- L2 Cache BG Scrub [Enabled / Disabled]
- Data Cache BG Scrub [Enabled / Disabled]
- AMD Cool & Quiet Configuration
- Cool N'Quiet [Enabled / Disabled]
- Chipset
- AGP Bridge Configuration
- Primary Graphics Adapter [AGP / PCI]
- Search For MDA Resources [No / Yes]
- AGP Mode [8X / 4 X]
- AGP Fast Write [Enabled / Disabled]
- Graphics Aperture [32 MB- 256 MB]
- South Bridge Configuration
- MPS Rev [1.1 / 1.4]
- PCI Delay Transaction [Enabled / Disabled]
- USB Configuration
- USB 1.1 Ports Configuration [USB 2-8 Ports]
- USB 2.0 Ports Enable [Enabled / Disabled]
- Legacy USB support [Auto / Enabled / Disabled]
- USB 2.0 Controller Mode [Full Speed / Hi-Speed]
- Onboard Devices Configuration
- All devices from AC'97, VIA SATA. Promise SATA, LAN, IEEE 1394 plus Ports
- RAID vs. IDE Mode configuration
- PCIPnP
- PnPOS [Yes / No]
- PCI Latency Timer [32 -248]
- IRQ Allocations
- JumperFree Configuration
- Config System Frequency/Voltage
- CPU FSB Frequency [200-300 MHz]
- Vcore Offset [None / 100 / 200 / 300 mV]
- DDR Voltage [Auto / 2.6 / 2.7 / 2.8V]
- AGP Voltage [1.5 / 1.7V]
- V-Link Voltage [2.5 / 2.7V]
- Performance Mode [Standard / Turbo 1,2,3 / Safe]
- Speech Configuration
- Speech Post Reporter [Enabled / Disabled]
- Report IDE Error [Enabled / Disabled]
- Report System Checking [Enabled / Disabled]
- Report System Booting [Enabled / Disabled]
- Instant Music
Instant Music [Enabled / Disabled]
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