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ASRock 970 Pro2 Motherboard
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1.3 Unique Features
ASRock OC Tuner
ASRock OC Tuner is a user-friendly overclocking tool which al-
lows you to surveil your system by hardware monitor function
and overclock your hardware devices to get the best system
performance under Windows
®
environment.
ASRock Intelligent Energy Saver
Featuring an advanced proprietary hardware and software de-
sign, Intelligent Energy Saver is a revolutionary technology that
delivers unparalleled power savings. The voltage regulator can
reduce the number of output phases to improve efficiency when
the CPU cores are idle. In other words, it is able to provide ex-
ceptional power saving and improve power efficiency without
sacrificing computing performance. To use Intelligent Energy
Saver function, please enable Cool ‘n’ Quiet option in the BIOS
setup in advance.
ASRock Instant Boot
ASRock Instant Boot allows you to turn on your PC in just a few
seconds, provides a much more efficient way to save energy,
time, money, and improves system running speed for your sys-
tem. It leverages the S3 and S4 ACPI features which normally
enable the Sleep/Standby and Hibernation modes in Windows
®
to shorten boot up time. By calling S3 and S4 at specific timing
during the shutdown and startup process, Instant Boot allows
you to enter your Windows
®
desktop in a few seconds.
ASRock Instant Flash
ASRock Instant Flash is a BIOS flash utility embedded in Flash
ROM. This convenient BIOS update tool allows you to update
system BIOS without entering operating systems first like MS-
DOS or Windows
®
. With this utility, you can press the <F6> key
during the POST or the <F2> key to enter into the BIOS setup
menu to access ASRock Instant Flash. Just launch this tool and
save the new BIOS file to your USB flash drive, floppy disk or
hard drive, then you can update your BIOS only in a few clicks
without preparing an additional floppy diskette or other compli-
cated flash utility. Please be noted that the USB flash drive or
hard drive must use FAT32/16/12 file system.
