BIOS Features:
The ASUS Crosshair IV Extreme uses an American Megatrends Inc. BIOS (AMI), updated to revision 0502, which is one of the latest BIOS update available at the time of writing this review.
Here's a video of going through the BIOS screens:
Some core menu screenshots are included below.
Main BIOS screen:
DRAM timing and configuration options for each installed bank of memory.
The onboard devices menu allows for the configuration and the ability to disable devices.
LED control allow you to individually disable any LED's on the motherboard.
Voltage monitoring menu covers key voltage and components on the motherboard.
Temperature protection and monitoring can be enabled and disabled in this menu.
The tools menu allows access to alternative overclocking profiles and BIOS flashing tools.
A quick shot of ASUS' EZ Flash 2 BIOS flashing utility.
ASUS AI Suite II:
Having all these overclocking tools and features in the BIOS is no use if you can't play with them in Windows on the fly. So to integrate all these tools into one place, ASUS incorporates it all in a package called AI Suite II. These utilities that fall under the AI Suite II umbrella are all included in the shipped DVD, and can be downloaded off the ASUS website as well.
Some core software screenshots are included below.
ASUS TurboV EVO screen:
CPU Level Up allows inexperienced users to automatically increase the performance of their processor with a few clicks of a button.
Fan Xpert allows the fine tweaking of your fan profiles based on temperatures and load settings.
Probe II contains the ability to monitor and adjust thresholds for voltages, temperatures and fan speeds.
Graphing your temperatures and voltages is done without the need of a third party program, all integrated into the AI Suite II package.
For those not willing to do their BIOS updates manually, ASUS update finds the correct and most up to date BIOS for your motherboard and updates it for you.
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