Bios - General Bios 1 of 4


One of the most radical features of this bios, is surprisingly not the on the Genie Bios section but on the main page. See that little option on the bottom right [F9] Change SETUP Mode ?

Pressing [F9] opens the red option below:-

This allows you to view the bios in 2 modes:-

• Easy Mode: Ideal if your a new user or not into heavy overclocking. Just shows the key bios settings.
• Advanced Mode Reveals all bios options. You'll most certainly get great performance just using Easy Mode, but if your after those extra MHz, this is where you'll get it.

DFI's solution here seems more elegant than Gigabyte's effort to do a similar thing on their X58 Motherboards.

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Standard Cmos Features

Advanced Bios Features

Hard Disk Boot Priority Sub Menu

Advanced Chipset Features

PCIE Configuration Sub Menu Much more detail than corresponding Intel offerings:-

PCIE- Slot1 Sub Menu Allows setting of fixed bamdwidth options ie x16 etc., and even a wattage limit.

Gen2 High Speed Mode

Link Bandwidth options

Wattage options

Link ASPM

NB-SP Port Features Sub Menu

Options:-

Advanced Chipset Features - Auto Optimise bottom IO

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Integrated Peripherals

On-Chip IDE Device Sub-Menu

PIO Options:

UDMA Options:


On-Chip Sata Device Sub Menu

Raid Invoke Mode:

On Chip Access Mode

Combined Mode

Pata Channel Mapping - Available when Combined Mode Enabled.


OnBoard Super I/O Sub Menu


USB Device Setting Sub Menu


HD Audio Azalia options:


Azalia Front Panel options:

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Power Management Setup


PnP/PCI Configurations

Init Display first option:

IrQ Resources Sub Menuu Available when Resources controlled by changed from Auto - Allows manual settings of IRQs. Only use if you have a troublesome add on card.


PC Health Status
Top

Bottom


Cmos Reloaded
Allows 4 bios profiles to be saved, for recall as you want. Comes pre loaded with a couple of overclocking options etc.,

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Genie Bios - Main Menu 1of3
Main Menu:
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Bottom


Onboard Devices Sub Menu Since 939 have always wondered why the Lan is in the overclocking menu , guess it's tradition now:


Dram Configuration Sub Menu
Easy

Advanced


DCTs Mode


CKE based powerdown Mode


CKE based powerdown


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MCI Memory Timing 1of3

This is the menu that is significantly different depending if you view in Easy or Advanced Mode using [F9]
Easy Mode Options:

Advanced Mode Options:
Top:

Bottom:


All options are shown below Items marked * are advanced:-
2T Mode, unlike Intel, no 1T mode.

CAS Latency Time 4~11
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Bottom


Precharge Delay (tRAS) 16~30
Top

Bottom


Dram RAS# Precharge Delay 5~11


Dram RAS# to CAS# Delay 5~11


Bank to Bank Cmd (tRRD) 4~7


tRC 11T~41T
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Bottom

MCI Memory Timing 2of3
Note: Items marked with * are available from Advanced Menu [9] from Main Menu Screen
*TRTP 4~6

*Write Recovery (TWR) 5~8, 10 and 12

*Write-Read Command(TWTR) 4~7

TRFC0 90ns~350.5ns

TRFC1 90ns~350.5ns

TRFC2 90ns~350.5ns

TRFC3 90ns~350.5ns

*TRDRD 2~10
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MCI Memory Timing 3of3
Note: Items marked with * are available from Advanced Menu [9] from Main Menu Screen

*TrwtTO 3~17
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Bottom

*Twrrd 2~10
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Bottom

*Twrwr 3~10

Bank Swizzle Mode

Auto Tweak Performance

Optimal Performance Mode

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Dram Configuration ODC Sub Menu
This sub menu is only visible in Advanced Mode using [F9] from Main Bios Menu.
*ODC Sub Menu



For Channel A & B:
*CPU On-Die Termination

*DQS Drive Strength

*Data Drive Strength

*MEMCLK Drive Strength

*Addr/Cmd Drive Strength

*CS/ODT Drive Strength

*CKE Drive Strength

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Genie Bios - Main Menu 2of3



HT Link Control Sub Menu
Easy

Options:

Advanced

HT Link Width:

HT Link Tristate

Unit ID Clunping


See Links for :
CPU Features Sub Menu
PWM Settings Sub Menu

Timing Mode
Options: Manual Auto, on selecting [Manual Memory Clock value or limit] and [CPU Clock Ratios] selection becomes available.

Memory Clock value or limit


AMD K8 Cool&Quiet Control


CPU Clock Ratios - Activated by setting [Timing Mode] to Manual
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