Asus Quiet Thermal Solution; Asus Ez Diy; Other Special Features - Asus Z97I-PLUS Manual

1.1.4

ASUS Quiet Thermal Solution

ASUS Fanless Design: stylish heatsink solution
The stylish heatsink features a 0-dB thermal solution that offers you a noiseless PC
environment. The heatsink design also lowers the temperature of the chipset and power
phase area through high efficient heat-exchange. Combined with usability and aesthetics,
the ASUS stylish heatsink will give you an extremely silent and cooling experience with its
elegant appearance.
ASUS Fan Xpert 3
ASUS Fan Xpert 3 provides customizable settings for a cooler and quieter computing
environment. With its Fan Auto Tuning feature, ASUS Fan Xpert 3 automatically detects
and tweaks all fan speeds, and provides you with optimized fan settings based on the fans'
specifications and positions.
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ASUS EZ DIY

ASUS Q-Design
ASUS Q-Design enhances your DIY experience. All of Q-Slot, Q-DIMM, Q-Connector and
Q-Shield design speed up and simplify the DIY process.
ASUS UEFI BIOS
ASUS UEFI BIOS, a UEFI compliant architecture, offers the first mouse-controlled intuitive
graphical BIOS interface that goes beyond the traditional keyboard-only BIOS controls,
providing you with more flexibility, convenience, and easy to navigate UEFI BIOS than the
traditional BIOS versions. It offers you with dual selectable modes and native support for hard
drives larger than 2.2 TB.
ASUS UEFI BIOS includes the following new features:
• New My Favorite function allows you to quickly access to the frequently used items
• New Quick Note function allows you to take notes in the BIOS environment
• New log reminder allows you to view all your modified settings
• F12 BIOS snapshot hotkey
• F3 Shortcut for most accessed information
• ASUS DRAM SPD (Serial Presence Detect) information detecting faulty DIMMs, and
helping with difficult POST situations.
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Other special features

DisplayPort Support
DisplayPort is a digital display interface standard, providing billions of colors and bi-
directional communications, thus enabling the fastest refresh rates, and the highest resolution
digital display through a single cable. Also, it supports HDCP copy protection for Blu-ray
discs. Simply output 3D signals through the connected DisplayPort cable with your 3D
display, then you can sit back and enjoy a perfect 3D animation experience.
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Chapter 1: Product introduction