Super X8DT3, User Manual

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Chapter 4: AMI BIOS
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Clock Spread Spectrum
Select Enable to use the feature of Clock Spectrum, which will allow the BIOS to
monitor and attempt to reduce the level of Electromagnetic Interference caused by
the components whenever needed. The options are Disabled and Enabled.
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Advanced Chipset Control
The items included in the Advanced Settings submenu are listed below:
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CPU Bridge Confi guration
QPI Links Speed
This feature selects QPI's data transfer speed. The options are Slow-mode, and
Full Speed .
QPI Frequency
This selects the desired QPI frequency. The options are Auto , 4.800 GT,
5.866GT, 6.400 GT.
QPI L0s and L1
This enables the QPI power state to low power. L0s and L1 are automatically
selected by the motherboard. The options are Disabled and Enabled.
Memory Frequency
This feature forces a DDR3 frequency slower than what the system has detected.
The available options are Auto , Force DDR-800, Force DDR-1066, Force DDR-
1333 and Force SPD.
Memory Mode
The options are Independent , Channel Mirror, Lockstep and Sparing.
Independent - All DIMMs are available to the operating system.
Channel Mirror - The motherboard maintains two identical copies of all data in
memory for redundancy.
Lockstep - The motherboard uses two areas of memory to run the same set of
operations in parallel.
Sparing - A preset threshold of correctable errors is used to trigger fail-over.
The spare memory is put online and used as active memory in place of the
failed memory.