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OC PROFILE
Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6 management. Press  to enter the sub-menu.
Set Name for Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
Names the current overclocking profile. 
Save Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
Saves the current overclocking profile.
Load Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
Loads the current overclocking profile.
Clear Overclocking Profile 1/ 2/ 3/ 4/ 5/ 6
Clears the current overclocking profile.
OC Profile Load from ROM
Loads OC profile from ROM.
OC Profile Save to USB
Saves OC profile to the USB flash disk drive. The USB flash disk should be FAT32 format only.
OC Profile Load from USB
Loads OC profile from the USB flash disk drive. The USB flash disk should be FAT32 format only.
 
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HARDWARE MONITOR
Current Temperature & Speedinformation
Fancontrol field
Voltagedisplay
Setting Buttons
Current Temperature & Speed information
Shows the current CPU temperature, system temperature and fans' speeds.
Fan control field
This motherboard provides a fan speed control feature call “Smart Fan Mode”. Please check the “Smart Fan Mode” to enable the Smart Fan Mode. Smart Fan Mode automatically controls fan speed depending on the current CPU temperature and to keep it with a specific operating speed. When the current CPU temperature is over/ under the setting temperature, the CPU/ system fan will run at the corresponding speed. In this field, you can set the CPU/ system fan speed and the target temperatures by moving the square.
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The changed settings will become effective after you save the changes and reboot the system.
Function Buttons
[All Full Speed]  Sets all CPU/ system fans to run at full speed.
[All Set Default]  Sets all CPU/ system fans to run at default speed.
[All Set Cancel]  Discards current all changes and restore to the previous values.
Voltage display
Shows the current voltages of CPU, system and memory.
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Appendix A
Realtek Audio
The Realtek audio provides 10-channel DAC that simultaneously supports 7.1 sound playback and 2 channels of independent stereo sound output (multiple streaming) through the Front-Out-Left and Front-Out-Right channels.  
						

							
Appendix A
A-2Realtek Audio

Software Configuration
After installing the audio driver (see Chapter 1 - Driver and Utilities), the “Realtek HD Audio Manager” icon will appear at the notification area (lower right of the screen). You may double click the icon and the GUI will pop up accordingly.
double click the icon
It is also available to enable the audio driver by clicking the Realtek HD Audio Manager from the Control Panel.
Software panel overview
The following figure describes the function of the Realtek HD Audio Manager panel.  
Device Selection
Volume Adjustment
Application Enhancement
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Device Selection
Here you can select a audio output source to change the related options. The “check” sign (in orange) indicates the devices as default.
Volume Adjustment
You can control the volume or balance the right/left side of the speakers that you plugged in front or rear panel by adjust the bar.
Application Enhancement
The array of options will provide you a complete guidance of anticipated sound effect for both output and input device.
Jack status panel
This panel depicts all render and capture devices currently connected with your computer. 
Auto popup dialog
When you plug into the device at the jack, a dialogue window will pop up asking you which device is current connected.
As you know, each jack corresponds to its default setting, you can refer to the next section “Hardware Default Setting”.
 Important
The pictures in this appendix are for reference only and may vary from the product you purchased. Please refer to the actual screens of your system for detailed information.
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A-4Realtek Audio

Hardware Default Setting
The following diagrams are audio back panel default setting.
Backpanel audio jacks to 2-channel speakers diagram
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Backpanel audio jacks to 4-channel speakers diagram
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Backpanel audio jacks to 6-channel speakers diagram
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Backpanel audio jacks to 8-channel speakers diagram
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Appendix B
Intel RAID
This appendix will assist users in configuring and enabling RAID functionality and accelerating system on platforms  
						

							
Appendix B
B-2Intel RAID

Introduction
The motherboard comes with the Intel RAID controller that allows you to configure SATA hard drives as RAID sets.
SATA hard drives deliver blistering transfer speeds up to 6 Gb/s. Serial ATA uses long, thin cables, making it easier to connect your drive and improving the airflow inside your PC. The most outstanding features are:
Supports 3 Gb/s or 6 Gb/s transfers with CRC error checking.
Supports Hot-plug-n-play feature.
Data handling optimizations including tagged command queuing, elevator seek and packet chain command.
Intel® RAID controller offers RAID level 0 (Striping), RAID level 1 (Mirroring and Duplexing), RAID level 5 (Block Interleaved Distributed Parity), RAID level 10 (A Stripe of Mirrors) , Intel® Rapid Storage Technology.
RAID 0 breaks the data into blocks which are written to separate hard drives. Spreading the hard drive I/O load across independent channels greatly improves I/O performance.
RAID 1 provides data redundancy by mirroring data between the hard drives and provides enhanced read performance. 
RAID 5 Provides data striping at the byte level and also stripe error correction information. This results in excellent performance and good fault tolerance. Level 5 is one of the most popular implementations of RAID. 
RAID 10 Not one of the original RAID levels, multiple RAID 1 mirrors are created, and a RAID 0 stripe is created over these. 
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology is the advanced ability for two RAID volumes to share the combined space of two hard drives being used in unison.
Intel® Rapid Storage Technology utilizes RAID 1 functionality to copy data from a designated Master drive to a designated Recovery drive. The size of the Master drive must be less than or equal to the size of the Recovery drive. When a Recovery volume is created, complete capacity of the Master drive will be used as the Master volume. Only one Recovery Volume can exist on a system. There are 2 methods of updating the data on the Master to the Recovery drive. They are Continuous Update Policy and On Request Update Policy.
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The least number of hard drives for RAID 0, RAID 1, Recovery or Matrix mode is 2. The least number of hard drives for RAID 10 mode is 4. And the least number of hard drives for RAID 5 mode is 3.
All the information/ volumes/ pictures listed in your system might differ from the illustrations in this appendix. 
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