Gigabyte GA-K8N-SLI Owner's manual

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

Motherboard

GA-K8N Ultra-SLI

Motherboard

GA-K8N Pro-SLI

Feb. 25, 2005

Motherboard

GA-K8N Pro-SLI

Motherboard

GA-K8N-SLI

Aug. 8, 2005

Motherboard

GA-K8N-SLI

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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 -

GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI GA-K8N-SLI

AMD AthlonTM 64 / 64 FX K8 Socket 939

2000MT/s

3000+ CPU

nVIDIA® nForce4 SLI

4DDR DIMM 4GB ( )

DDR 400/333/266/200 DIMM

2 PCI Express x 16

2PCI Express x 1

2PCI

IDE 2IDE (UDMA 33/ATA 66/ATA 100/ATA 133) 4IDE

1 2

SATA 4 SATA 3Gb/s nVIDIA® nForce4 SLI (S_ATA0_SB,

S_ATA1_SB, S_ATA2_SB, S_ATA3_SB)

4SATA SiI3114 (SATA0_SII, SATA1_SII, SATA2_SII,

SATA3_SII)

1Normal/EPP/ECP

1(COMA)

10 USB 2.0/1.1 (x 4 x 6- )

3IEEE1394b ( )

1

1 /

1PS/2

Marvell 8053 (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN1 )

VITESSE 8201 (10/100/1000 Mbit)(LAN2 )

2RJ45

ALC850 CODEC

Jack Sensing

2 / 4 / 6 / 8

( )

/

SPDIF / SPDIF

CD

1-2

( ) PC 4GB 4GB

4GB

GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI

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I/O IT8712



CPU

CPU / /

CPU

SATA RAID nForce4 SLI

-striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1) striping + mirroring

(RAID 0+1)

-300MB

-

- 4 SATA 3Gb/s

Silicon Image SiI3114

-striping (RAID 0) mirroring (RAID 1) striping + mir-

roring (RAID 0+1) RAID 5

-150MB

-

- 4 SATA

-Win 2003/2000/XP

BIOS AWARD BIOS

Dual BIOS /Q-Flash

@BIOS

EasyTune 5( )

BIOS (CPU/ DDR/ HT-Link/ Chipset core PCI-E)

BIOS (CPU/PCI-E)

ATX 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 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

25

SLI

(

" " )

SLI

SLI SLI

SLI SLI SLI

SLI

3. :

NVIDIA SLI Windows XP

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