ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 Quick Installation Guide - Page 7

WARNING Please realize that there is a certain risk involved with overclocking, including adjusting the setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Overclocking Technology, or using the thirdparty overclocking tools. Overclocking may affect your system stability, or even cause damage to the components and devices of your system. It should be done at your own risk and expense. We are not responsible for possible damage caused by overclocking. CAUTION! 1. This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology. Please read "Untied Overclocking Technology" on page 36 for details. 2. This motherboard supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. Before you implement Dual Channel Memory Technology, make sure to read the installation guide of memory modules on page 11 for proper installation. 3. Due to the operating system limitation, the actual memory size may be less than 4GB for the reservation for system usage under Windows® XP and Windows® VistaTM. For Windows® XP 64-bit and Windows® VistaTM 64bit with 64-bit CPU, there is no such limitation. 4. Although this motherboard offers stepless control, it is not recommended to perform over-clocking. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU bus frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the CPU. 5. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown. Before you resume the system, please check if the CPU fan on the motherboard functions properly and unplug the power cord, then plug it back again. To improve heat dissipation, remember to spray thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink when you install the PC system. 6. This motherboard supports ASRock AM2 Boost overclocking technology. If you enable this function in the BIOS setup, the memory performance will improve up to 12.5%, but the effect still depends on the AM2 CPU you adopt. Enabling this function will overclock the chipset/CPU reference clock. However, we can not guarantee the system stability for all CPU/DRAM configurations. If your system is unstable after AM2 Boost function is enabled, it may not be applicative to your system. You may choose to disable this function for keeping the stability of your system. 7. Please remove PCIE Switch card from PCIE2/PCIE SWITCH slot before you use ATITM CrossFireTM function. In CrossFireTM mode, the two ATITM graphics cards you install should be from the same GPU family. 8. This motherboard is bundled with one PCIE Switch card installed on PCIE2/ PCIE SWITCH slot, which allows you better flexibility to choose PCIE functions between one PCIE x16 slot and two PCIE slots for ATITM CrossFireTM without setting up jumpers. To avail of the PCI Express x16 graphics card installed on PCIE3 slot work at PCIE x16 bandwidth, please make sure that PCIE Switch card is installed on PCIE2/PCIE SWITCH slot. Please refer to page 15 for details of installing a single graphics card. 7 ASRock ALiveXFire-eSATA2 Motherboard English