Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI Owner's manual

Category
Motherboards
Type
Owner's manual

This manual is also suitable for

GA-K8N Ultra-SLI /
GA-K8N Pro-SLI /
GA-K8N-SLI
AMD Socket 939
Rev. 1004
12MC-K8NUSLI-1004
Motherboard
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI
Jan. 12, 2005
Jan. 12, 2005
Motherboard
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI
Motherboard
GA-K8N Pro-SLI
Feb. 25, 2005
Feb. 25, 2005
Motherboard
GA-K8N Pro-SLI
Motherboard
GA-K8N-SLI
Aug. 8, 2005
Aug. 8, 2005
Motherboard
GA-K8N-SLI
© 2006 GIGA-BYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD. All rights reserved.
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GA-K8N Ultra-SLI / GA-K8N Pro-SLI / GA-K8N-SLI ......................... 8
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1-1 .................................................................................... 11
1-2 ..................................................................................................... 12
1-3 .................................................................. 14
1-3-1 ............................................................................................ 14
1-3-2 ................................................................................................. 15
1-4 ....................................................................................... 16
1-5 ................................................................................................. 18
1-6 SLI (Scalable Link Interface ) ................... 19
1-7 ................................................................................... 22
1-8 ....................................................................................... 23
BIOS ....................................................................................... 33
(BIOS F6a) .................................................................. 34
2-1 Standard CMOS Features ( CMOS ) ........................................... 36
2-2 Advanced BIOS Features ( BIOS ) ..................................... 38
2-3 Integrated Peripherals ( ) ....................................................... 40
2-4 Power Management Setup ( ) ............................................... 44
2-5 PnP/PCI Configurations ( PCI ) ............................. 45
2-6 PC Health Status ( ) ............................................................. 46
2-7 MB Intelligent Tweaker(M.I.T.) ( / ) ...................................... 49
2-8 Top Performance ( ...................................................................... 52
2-9 Load Optimized Defaults ( Optimized ) ...................................... 52
2-10 Set Supervisor/User Password ( /) ................... 53
2-11 Save & Exit Setup ( SETUP ) ................................ 54
2-12 Exit Without Saving ( SETUP ) .......................... 54
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3-1 ............................................................................... 55
3-2 ............................................................................................ 56
3-3 ..................................................................................................... 56
3-4 ..................................................................................................... 57
3-5 ................................................................................................. 57
.......................................................................................................... 59
4-1 ............................................................................................ 59
4-1-1 EasyTune 5 ............................................................................................... 59
4-1-2 Xpress Recovery2 ................................................................................... 60
4-1-3 BIOS ....................................................................................... 62
4-1-4 Serial ATA RAID BIOS ................................................ 73
4-1-5 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 ....................................................................................... 78
4-2 ..................................................................................................... 84
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GA-K8N Ultra-SLI / GA-K8N Pro-SLI / GA-K8N-SLI
ATX_12V
CPU_FAN
NB_FAN
CODEC
IT8712
nVIDIA®
nForce4 SLI
Main
BIOS
PCI1
PCI2
F_USB2
F_USB3
VITESSE
8201 phy
BATTERY
ATX
IDE2
FDD
SYS_FAN
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI or GA-K8N Pro-SLI/GA-K8N-SLI
KB_MS
Socket 939
AUDIO2
COMA
LPT
USB
LAN1
F_AUDIO
CD_IN
F_PANEL
PWR_LED
IDE1
Marvell
8053
F2_1394
PWR_FAN
Backup
BIOS
F1_1394
IR_CIR
PCIE_16_1
PCIE_2
PCIE_1
Sil3114
S_ATA2_SB
S_ATA3_SB
S_ATA0_SB
S_ATA1_SB
CLR_CMOS
F_USB1
SATA3_SII
SATA2_SII
SATA1_SII
SATA0_SII
SPDIF_O
SPDIF_I
USB
LAN2
AUDIO1
PCIE_16_2
SLI Switch Module Socket
TSB81BA3
TSB82AA2
DDR1
DDR2
DDR3
DDR4
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI
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GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI
Center/Subwoofer Spear Out
AMD K8
Socket 939
CPU
CPUCLK+/-(200MHz)
Hyper Transport Bus
nVIDIA®
nForce4
SLI
DDR 400/333/266/200MHz DIMM
24MHz
33MHz
IT8712
4 SATA 3Gb/s
ATA33/66/100/133
IDE Channels
PCICLK
(33MHz)
2PCI
PCI Bus
Marvell
8053
RJ45
10 USB
Ports
Dual Channel Memory
Floppy
PS/2 KB/Mouse
LPT Port
LPC BUS
COM Port
IR_CIR
LAN 1
Line-Out
MIC
CODEC
Line-In
SPDIF In
SPDIF Out
Side Speaker Out
Surround Speaker Out
3 IEEE1394b
TSB82AA2
TSB81BA3
2 PCI Express x 1 Ports
PCI Express x 1 Bus
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
4 SATA
PCI Express x 16 Bus
Dual BIOS
RJ45
LAN 2
2 PCIE x 8
1 PCIE x 16
or
SLI Switch
PCI-ECLK
(100MHz)
VITESSE
8201 phy
SLI Mode
Normal Mode
Sil3114
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1-1
1.
2.
3. (CPU RAM)
4.
5.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
K8 nForce4 SLI - 12 -
î‚ŠGA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI GA-K8N-SLI
î‚ŠAMD AthlonTM 64 / 64 FX K8 Socket 939
î‚Š2000MT/s
î‚Š3000+ CPU
nVIDIA® nForce4 SLI
î‚Š4DDR DIMM 4GB ( )
î‚ŠDDR 400/333/266/200 DIMM
î‚Š2 PCI Express x 16
î‚Š2PCI Express x 1
î‚Š2PCI
IDE î‚Š2IDE (UDMA 33/ATA 66/ATA 100/ATA 133) 4IDE
î‚Š1 2
SATA 4 SATA 3Gb/s nVIDIA® nForce4 SLI (S_ATA0_SB,
S_ATA1_SB, S_ATA2_SB, S_ATA3_SB)
î‚Š4SATA SiI3114 (SATA0_SII, SATA1_SII, SATA2_SII,
SATA3_SII)
î‚Š1Normal/EPP/ECP
î‚Š1(COMA)
î‚Š10 USB 2.0/1.1 (x 4 x 6- )
î‚Š3IEEE1394b ( )
î‚Š1
î‚Š1 /
î‚Š1PS/2
î‚Š1PS/2
î‚ŠMarvell 8053 (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN1 )
î‚ŠVITESSE 8201 (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN2 )
î‚Š2RJ45
î‚ŠALC850 CODEC
î‚ŠJack Sensing
î‚Š2 / 4 / 6 / 8
î‚Š( )
/
î‚ŠSPDIF / SPDIF
î‚ŠCD
1-2
( ) PC 4GB 4GB
4GB
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI
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I/O î‚ŠIT8712
î‚Š
î‚ŠCPU
î‚ŠCPU / /
î‚ŠCPU
î‚ŠCPU
î‚ŠCPU
SATA RAID î‚ŠnForce4 SLI
-striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1) striping + mirroring
(RAID 0+1)
-300MB
-
- 4 SATA 3Gb/s
î‚ŠSilicon Image SiI3114
-striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1) striping + mir-
roring (RAID 0+1) RAID 5
-150MB
-
- 4 SATA
-Win 2003/2000/XP
BIOS î‚ŠAWARD BIOS
î‚ŠDual BIOS /Q-Flash
î‚Š@BIOS
î‚ŠEasyTune 5( )
î‚ŠBIOS (CPU/ DDR/ HT-Link/ Chipset core PCI-E)
î‚ŠBIOS (CPU/PCI-E)
î‚ŠATX 30.5 x 24.4
() EasyTune 5
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI
K8 nForce4 SLI - 14 -
1-3
(CPU)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
1-3-1
90 (
1) ( )
(2)
1.
90
2.
( )
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1-3-2
1.
(
)
2.
CPU_FAN
K8 nForce4 SLI - 16 -
1-4
1.
2.
3.
DDR BIOS
DDR
1.
2.
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Dual Channel DDR ( )
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI/GA-K8N Pro-SLI/GA-K8N-SLI (Dual Channel DDR
Technology) Memory Bus
CPU
1. DDR
2. DDR (
)DDR
3. DDR (
)
Dual Channel Technology (SS DS )
2
4
DDR 1 DDR 2 DDR 3 DDR 4
DS/SS DS/SS X X
X X DS/SS DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS
1
2
3
DDR 1 DDR 2 DDR 3 DDR 4
X DS/SS X X
X X X DS/SS
X DS/SS DS/SS X
DS/SS X X DS/SS
X DS/SS X DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS X
X DS/SS DS/SS DS/SS
DS/SS X DS/SS DS/SS
DS/SS DS/SS X DS/SS
(SS DS )
2DDR DDR1 DDR2
K8 nForce4 SLI - 18 -
1-5
1.
2. (
)
3.
4.
5.
6.
7. BIOS
8.
PCI Express x 16
/
PCI Express x 16
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1-6 SLI (Scalable Link Interface )
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI NVIDIA SLI
SLI PCI Express NVIDIA Geforce
NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
GA-K8N Ultra-SLI/GA-K8N Pro-SLI/GA-K8N-SLI SLI
1. SLI :
PCI Express x 16
SLI SLI
SLI (SLI Mode)
(Normal Mode)
(Normal Mode): PCIE x16
PCIE x 16 x16
SLI (SLI Mode): SLI PCIE x 16
2PCIE x 8 ;SLI
SLI (GV-NX66T128D) SLI
SLI
PCIE_16_1 PCIE
PCIE_16_1 PCIE x 8
PCIE
PCIE
"*" PCIE x 8
SLI
Normal
PCIE_1 PCIE_16_1 PCIE_2 PCIE_16_2
* *
SLI
2. :
K8 nForce4 SLI - 20 -
:
"1-5 "
SLI
PCIE x 16 PCIE_16_1
PCIE_16_2
SLI
SLI
25
SLI
(
" " )
SLI
SLI
SLI SLI
SLI SLI SLI
SLI
3. :
NVIDIA SLI Windows XP
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Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-SLI Owner's manual

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