Asus ROG Strix Z270I Gaming STRIX Z270I GAMING Users ManualEnglish - Page 67

Platform Misc Configuration, 3.6.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration, 3.6.4 PCH Configuration

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CPU Power Management Control This item allows you to manage and configure the CPU's power. Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) [Auto] This item allows your system to support more than two frequency ranges. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled] CPU C-States [Auto] This item allows you to set the power saving of the CPU states. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled] 3.6.2 Platform Misc Configuration The items in this menu allow you you to change the ASPM for PCH and SA PCI Express 3.6.3 System Agent (SA) Configuration The items in this menu allow you to adjust the Link Speed for PEG Port and Multi-Monitor. 3.6.4 PCH Configuration PCI Express Configuration This item allows you to configure the PCI Express slots. PCI-E Speed [Auto] This item allows your system to automatically select the PCI Express port speed. When set to [Gen1], the PCI-E port runs at PCI-E 1.0 speed. When set to [Gen2], the PCI-E port runs at PCI-E 2.0 speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [Gen1] [Gen2] 3.6.5 PCH Storage Configuration While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The SATA Port items show Empty if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port. SATA Controller(s) [Enabled] This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA device. Configuration options: [Enabled] [Disabled] SATA Mode Selection This item allows you to set the SATA configuration. [AHCI] [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration(RAID)] Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally optimize the order of commands. Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration(RAID)] when you want to create a RAID configuration from the SATA hard disk drives. Chapter 3 ASUS STRIX Z270I GAMING 3-17

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ASUS STRIX Z270I GAMING
3-17
Chapter 3
CPU Power Management Control
This item allows you to manage and configure the CPU’s power.
Intel(R) SpeedStep(tm) [Auto]
This item allows your system to support more than two frequency ranges.
Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
CPU C-States [Auto]
This item allows you to set the power saving of the CPU states.
Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled] [Enabled]
3.6.2
Platform Misc Configuration
The items in this menu allow you you to change the ASPM for PCH and SA PCI Express
3.6.3
System Agent (SA) Configuration
The items in this menu allow you to adjust the Link Speed for PEG Port and Multi-Monitor.
3.6.4
PCH Configuration
PCI Express Configuration
This item allows you to configure the PCI Express slots.
PCI-E Speed [Auto]
This item allows your system to automatically select the PCI Express port speed. When
set to [Gen1], the PCI-E port runs at PCI-E 1.0 speed. When set to [Gen2], the PCI-E
port runs at PCI-E 2.0 speed. Configuration options: [Auto] [Gen1] [Gen2]
3.6.5
PCH Storage Configuration
While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The
SATA Port items show Empty if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA port.
SATA Controller(s) [Enabled]
This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA device. Configuration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]
SATA Mode Selection
This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[AHCI]
Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to
use the AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface). The
AHCI allows the onboard storage driver to enable advanced
Serial ATA features that increases storage performance
on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally
optimize the order of commands.
[Intel RST Premium With
Intel Optane System
Acceleration(RAID)]
Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System
Acceleration(RAID)] when you want to create a RAID
configuration from the SATA hard disk drives.