System Agent Configuration; Graphics Configuration - Asus B85M-GAMER User Manual

SATA Mode Selection [AHCI]
Allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[Disabled]
[IDE]
[AHCI]
Aggressive LPM Support [Disabled]
This item appears only when you set the previous item to [AHCI] and allows you to enable
or disable PCH entering link power state aggressively. Configuration options: [Disabled]
[Enabled]
S.M.A.R.T. Status Check [On]
S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a monitor system. When
read/write of your hard disk errors occur, this feature allows the hard disk to report warning
messages during the POST. Configuration options: [On] [Off]
Hot Plug [Disabled] (SATA 6G 1~4 [Gray], SATA 3G 1~2 [Black])
These items appear only when you set the SATA Mode Selection item to [AHCI] and allow
you to enable/disable SATA Hot Plug Support.Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
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System Agent Configuration

VT-d [Disabled]
Allows you to enable or disable the VT-d function on MCH. Configuration options: [Enabled]
[Disabled]

Graphics Configuration

Allows you to select a primary display from iGPU, and PCIe graphical devices.
Primary Display [Auto]
Allows you to select which of the iGPU/PCIE Graphics device should be the Primary
Display. Configuration options: [Auto] [CPU Graphics] [PCIE]
DVMT Pre-Allocated For Haswell [Auto]
Allows you to select the amount of system memory allocated to DVMT 5.0 used by
CPU Graphics. Configuration options: [Auto] [32M] [64M] [96M] [128M] [160M] [192M]
[224M] [256M] [288M][320M] [352M] [384M] [416M] [448M] [480M] [512M]
Render Standby [Auto]
Allows you to enable or disable Intel
iGPU power use when the system is idle. Configuration options: [Auto] [Disabled]
[Enabled]
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Disables the SATA function.
Set to [IDE] when you want to use the Serial ATA hard disk drives as
Parallel ATA physical storage devices.
Set to [AHCI] when you want the SATA hard disk drives to use the AHCI
(Advanced Host Controller Interface). The AHCI allows the onboard storage
driver to enable advanced Serial ATA features that increases storage
performance on random workloads by allowing the drive to internally
optimize the order of commands.
Graphics Render Standby support to reduce
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