Asus A7V333 Manual page 12

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ASUS A7V333
Hit me with the voltage regulators ..
(Review by MS, April 24, 2002)
Jumpers and Switches
In times where everybody follows the jumperless trend, it is a bit nostalgic to see a board featuring not one or two but a whole battery
of jumpers. Suffice it to say that under many conditions, jumpers and switches are much preferable over any software (including
BIOS)- based solution. The minor inconvenience caused by a one time enabling disabling of certain integrated peripherals is no
comparison to the nuisance of a PnP OS constantly searching for additional hardware that was disabled in the BIOS but still spooks
around in the background. In other words, the true art is to find a compromise between features that make sense to support in
SoftBIOS mode and those that are better off by the unambiguous ways of hard setting.
Jump, Jumper, Jumperest
Despite the fact that the A7V333, once it is up and running can be operated in jumper-free mode, the board features a gazillion of
jumpers meant to enable / disable RAID, on-board sound, IEEE 1394 Firewire, USB and Keyboard Power-Up, the Secure Digital and
Memory Stick media interfaces and the infamous POST Reporter which comments on the different boot processes (the last thing I
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At One Glance
Features
Layout Ln-board
Peripherals
Jump, Jumper,
Jumperst
Dip Switch, Connectors
BIOS, Test
Configuration
SiSoft Sandra
Content Creation
WS2001, Expendable
Quake3 Arena, 3DMark
Overclocking,
Conclusion
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