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Asus Rampage III Formula User Manual

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Contents

4.2.5

Manual menu .................................................................. 4-4

4.2.6

Video menu ..................................................................... 4-5

4.2.7

ASUS Contact information .............................................. 4-5

4.2.8

Other information ............................................................ 4-6

4.3

Software information ................................................................... 4-8
4.3.1

ASUS AI Suite II .............................................................. 4-8

4.3.2

TurboV EVO .................................................................... 4-9

4.3.3

FAN Xpert ......................................................................4-11

4.3.4

Probe II ......................................................................... 4-12

4.3.5

Sensor Recorder ........................................................... 4-14

4.3.6

Sound Blaster X-Fi MB 2 ............................................. 4-15

4.4

RAID configurations .................................................................. 4-18
4.4.1

RAID definitions ............................................................ 4-18

4.4.2

Installing Serial ATA hard disks ..................................... 4-19

4.4.3

Setting the RAID item in BIOS ...................................... 4-19

4.4.4

Intel

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Matrix Storage Manager option ROM utility ......... 4-20

4.5

Creating a RAID driver disk ....................................................... 4-25
4.5.1

Creating a RAID driver disk without entering the OS .... 4-25

4.5.2

Creating a RAID driver disk in Windows

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...................... 4-25

Chapter 5:

ATI

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CrossFireX™ technology support

5.1

ATI

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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

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CrossFireX™ technology ................... 5-3

5.2

NVIDIA

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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

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SLI™ technology ......................... 5-6