Asus A8N-SLI User Manual

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5.2.4

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

5.2.5

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

5.2.6

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

5.3

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

5.3.1

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

5.3.2

ASUS Instant Music ............................................... 5-11

5.3.3

AI NET 2 ............................................................... 5-13
Using the Virtual Cable Tester™ ........................... 5-13

5.3.4

Audio configurations ............................................ 5-14

5.3.5

Using the NVIDIA

Firewall™ .................................. 5-20

5.4

RAID configurations ............................................................ 5-23
5.4.1

Installing hard disks .............................................. 5-24

5.4.2

NVIDIA

RAID configurations ................................ 5-25

5.5

Creating a RAID driver disk ................................................. 5-32

5.6

Cool ‘n’ Quiet!™ Technology ............................................... 5-33
5.6.1

Enabling Cool ‘n’ Quiet!™ Technology ................... 5-33

5.6.2

Launching the Cool ‘n’ Quiet!™ software .............. 5-34

5.7

Using the NVIDIA

nTune™ utility ....................................... 5-35

5.7.1

Managing your nForce™ system ........................... 5-35

5.7.2

Clock control ........................................................ 5-36

5.7.3

Voltage/Fan control ............................................. 5-36

5.7.4

Information ........................................................... 5-37

5.7.5

Other options ....................................................... 5-37

Chapter 6: SLI™ technology support

6.1

Overview ............................................................................... 6-1
6.1.1

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

6.1.2

ASUS Certified SLI Graphics cards .......................... 6-1

6.2

Dual graphics card setup ...................................................... 6-3

6.2.1

Setting the ASUS EZ selector card ......................... 6-3

6.2.2

Installing SLI-ready graphics cards ......................... 6-5

6.2.3

Setting the SLI mode in BIOS ................................. 6-9

6.2.4

Installing the device drivers .................................... 6-9

6.2.5

Enabling the multi-GPU feature in Windows ............ 6-9

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