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Chapter 5: Software support
5.9
Using the ASUS AI Selector utility
The motherboard support CD comes with the ASUS AI Selector that allows
you to set the video card mode of your system.
Follow the AI Selector installation wizard to install the AI Selector utility
from the motherboard support CD.
Use this utility only when you have two graphics cards installed in your
system.
5.9.1 Launching the ASUS AI Selector
After you have successfully installed the utility in your computer, launch
the AI Selector utility from the Windows
®
desktop by clicking Start > All
Programs > ASUS > AI Selector > AI Selector from the Windows
®
taskbar.
Click for help
Click to minimize
Click to exit
Click to select
SLI mode
Rotate knob to
select SLI mode
Single Video Card mode - the primary (blue) PCI Express x16 slot works at
the bandwidth of PCI Express x16.
Dual Video Card mode - the primary (blue) and secondary (black) PCI
Express x16 slots runs in x8 mode. The combined bandwidth of these
maintain the bandwidth of PCI Express x16.
Video card status