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ASUS EZ DIY, Other special features - best heatsink

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Chapter 1 Fanless Design: stylish heatsink solution The stylish heatsink features a 0-dB thermal solution that offers users a noiseless PC environment. Not only the beautiful shape upgrades the visual enjoyment for motherboard users, but also the heatsink design lowers the temperature of the chipset and power phase area through high efficient heat-exchange. Combined with usability and aesthetics, the ASUS stylish heatsink will give users an extremely silent and cooling experience with the elegant appearance! DO NOT uninstall the heat-pipe by yourself. Doing so may bend the tubing and affect the heat heat dissipation performance. 1.3.5 ASUS EZ DIY ASUS UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode) Flexible and Easy BIOS Interface ASUS UEFI BIOS offers the first mouse-controlled graphical BIOS designed with selectable modes, providing a user-friendly interface that goes beyond the traditional keyboard-only controls. It also fully utilizes 2.2TB and larger hard drives in 64-bit operating systems with native support. ASUS exclusive interface EZ Mode displays frequently-accessed info. Users can choose system performance settings, and drag and drop boot priorities. Advanced Mode for performance enthusiasts includes detailed DRAM settings via a dedicated memory info page for complete insight. New upgrade! Quick and easy information for enhanced system control - F12 BIOS snapshot hotkey for sharing UEFI information and troubleshooting - New F3 Shortcut for most accessed information - ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) information for accessing memory information, detecting faulty DIMMs, and helping with difficult POST situations. ASUS EZ-Flash 2 ASUS EZ Flash 2 is a user-friendly utility that allows you to update the BIOS without using a bootable floppy disk or an OS-based utility. 1.3.6 Other special features LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ featuring HyperFormance™ Technology boosts your PCIe graphics card up to 30% beyond its original performance. Designed for Intel® processor graphics and Windows® 7 PCs, it perfectly combines the performance of discrete graphic cards with fast computing iGPU. Also, with newly designed Virtual Sync, users can enjoy a smoother gaming experience by eliminating tearing artifacts. LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ can also dynamically assigns tasks to the best available graphics resource, based on power, performance, and system load. This allows users to fully utilize 3x faster video conversion with Intel® Quick Sync Video technology while retaining high-end 3D rendering and gaming performance, provided by both NVIDIA and AMD graphic cards. When the PCIe graphic cards are not required, the graphics control switches to the Intel® processor graphics, reducing the PCIe graphics power use down to zero, making the system more environment-friendly. For users 1-6 Chapter 1: Product Introduction

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Chapter 1: Product Introduction
Chapter 1
Fanless Design: stylish heatsink solution
The stylish heatsink features a 0-dB thermal solution that offers users a noiseless PC
environment. Not only the beautiful shape upgrades the visual enjoyment for motherboard
users, but also the heatsink design lowers the temperature of the chipset and power phase
area through high efficient heat-exchange. Combined with usability and aesthetics, the ASUS
stylish heatsink will give users an extremely silent and cooling experience with the elegant
appearance!
DO NOT uninstall the heat-pipe by yourself.
Doing so may bend the tubing and affect the
heat heat dissipation performance.
1.3.5
ASUS EZ DIY
ASUS UEFI BIOS (EZ Mode)
Flexible and Easy BIOS Interface
ASUS UEFI BIOS offers the first mouse-controlled graphical BIOS designed with selectable
modes, providing a user-friendly interface that goes beyond the traditional keyboard-only
controls. It also fully utilizes 2.2TB and larger hard drives in 64-bit operating systems with
native support.
ASUS exclusive interface
EZ Mode displays frequently-accessed info. Users can choose system performance settings,
and drag and drop boot priorities. Advanced Mode for performance enthusiasts includes
detailed DRAM settings via a dedicated memory info page for complete insight.
New upgrade! Quick and easy information for enhanced system control
-
F12 BIOS snapshot hotkey for sharing UEFI information and troubleshooting
-
New F3 Shortcut for most accessed information
-
ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) information for accessing memory
information, detecting faulty DIMMs, and helping with difficult POST situations.
ASUS EZ-Flash 2
ASUS EZ Flash 2 is a user-friendly utility that allows you to update the BIOS without using a
bootable floppy disk or an OS-based utility.
1.3.6
Other special features
LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™
LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ featuring HyperFormance™ Technology boosts your PCIe graphics
card up to 30% beyond its original performance. Designed for Intel
®
processor graphics and
Windows
®
7 PCs, it perfectly combines the performance of discrete graphic cards with fast
computing iGPU. Also, with newly designed Virtual Sync, users can enjoy a smoother gaming
experience by eliminating tearing artifacts. LucidLogix® Virtu MVP™ can also dynamically
assigns tasks to the best available graphics resource, based on power, performance, and
system load. This allows users to fully utilize 3x faster video conversion with Intel
®
Quick
Sync Video technology while retaining high-end 3D rendering and gaming performance,
provided by both NVIDIA and AMD graphic cards. When the PCIe graphic cards are not
required, the graphics control switches to the Intel
®
processor graphics, reducing the PCIe
graphics power use down to zero, making the system more environment-friendly. For users