ASROCK ALIVEXFIRE-ESATA2 User Manual page 8

WARNING
Please realize that there is a certain risk involved with overclocking, including adjusting
the setting in the BIOS, applying Untied Overclocking Technology, or using the third-
party overclocking tools. Overclocking may affect your system stability, or even
cause damage to the components and devices of your system. It should be done at
your own risk and expense. We are not responsible for possible damage caused by
overclocking.
CAUTION!
1. This motherboard supports Untied Overclocking Technology. Please read "Un-
tied Overclocking Technology" on page 42 for details.
2. This motherboard supports Dual Channel Memory Technology. Before you
implement Dual Channel Memory Technology, make sure to read the
installation guide of memory modules on page 14 for proper installation.
3. Due to the chipset limitation, if you adopt 4GB or more memory, the actual
memory size may be less than the installed memory size.
4. Although this motherboard offers stepless control, it is not recommended to
perform over-clocking. Frequencies other than the recommended CPU bus
frequencies may cause the instability of the system or damage the CPU.
5. While CPU overheat is detected, the system will automatically shutdown.
Before you resume the system, please check if the CPU fan on the motherboard
functions properly and unplug the power cord, then plug it back again. To
improve heat dissipation, remember to spray thermal grease between the
CPU and the heatsink when you install the PC system.
6. This motherboard supports ASRock AM2 Boost overclocking technology. If
you enable this function in the BIOS setup, the memory performance will
improve up to 12.5%, but the effect still depends on the AM2 CPU you adopt.
Enabling this function will overclock the chipset/CPU reference clock. However,
we can not guarantee the system stability for all CPU/DRAM configurations.
If your system is unstable after AM2 Boost function is enabled, it may not be
applicative to your system. You may choose to disable this function for
keeping the stability of your system.
7. Please remove PCIE Switch card from PCIE2/PCIE SWITCH slot before you
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use ATI CrossFire
cards you install should be from the same GPU family.
8. This motherboard is bundled with one PCIE Switch card installed on PCIE2/
PCIE SWITCH slot, which allows you better flexibility to choose PCIE func-
tions between one PCIE x16 slot and two PCIE slots for ATI
without setting up jumpers. To avail of the PCI Express x16 graphics card
installed on PCIE3 slot work at PCIE x16 bandwidth, please make sure that
PCIE Switch card is installed on PCIE2/PCIE SWITCH slot. Please refer to
page 18 for details of installing a single graphics card.
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function. In CrossFire mode, the two ATI
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graphics
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CrossFire