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Hey what's going on people welcome back to tech of tomorrow we'll bring you all the tech all the time I'm Eric and today my coast once again is jayjay from Asus and today we're going to be taking a look at their UEFI BIOS all the way through their mainstream and rog motherboards correct sir correct and actually even the UEFI options that we're going to show on the UAF 5 part with the exception of the RG ones will also include tough NWS right on so with that said let's not talk anymore let's jump in let's check out the UEFI alright folks you guys can see right now we're in the UEFI BIOS I've got JJ right here by my side and he's going to take us through a guided tour and tell us some of the great new features that are coming out on Asus his latest products yeah you're a hundred percent right doc we're going to be covering some new features that we have as part of our z87 series of motherboards this will cover the mainstream series the tough series rog series and WS series as well as even let's say valuated models alike are z87 - j as well as of course like our high end boards like the deluxe so anybody watching this video than any of the new motor buds that are coming out for you folks by watching this video they'll be able to apply these same settings to what they're doing in real time correct correct but definitely for guys want to tweak and tune their system they're going to want to make sure to check out our overclocking video which is going to break it down in a whole nother way as far as actually let you know how to tweak continue your system and be able to take advantage of the new fourth generation Core Series processor alright let's just see some of the basic new features then ok so here you can see we're actually in the easy mode interface and the big thing that we want to try to do with easy mode is try to be able to add a bit more functionality to it before you had some great options in there such as being able to go ahead and drag and drop different boot devices in sequential order so that you could go ahead and have defined onedrive be the bootable logging versus the other but we want to go ahead and extend that a bit further so we've added something very basic such as being able to go in and be able to make adjustments to your time and your date very simply not a big change but one that was requested a bigger one is actually right here if you take a look at the DRAM information we have a nice break down that shows us each one of the banks of memory it's installed here so here we have some great Kingston HyperX beast memory and that's installed now one of the most frequently executed items for users that are more enthusiast oriented and purchasing memory kits is enabling XMP all right for a lot of users they didn't necessarily know that they had to enable this or where to even enable it guys like me and you they've been doing it for a long time we know we have to go into the advanced property menu the overclocking or area and then enable the XMP profile it's true add many users before contact me and say they had no idea but just say this simple XMP profile and get that extra speed out of their memory correct and now all they're gonna have to do is just with an easy mode you can go ahead and click this one option and from there you can go ahead and select the profile Kingston generally tends to offer two profiles for their XMP other vendors tend to only offer one profile I'll but from there I can just go ahead and click it ask me if I want to load it and it will go ahead and apply it and that's it so it's a one-button execution of X and key much simpler than you actually having to navigate into the Advanced section go into a overclock tuner and then go to manual then set X and P profiling it's one across the solution yeah so a really nice easy function for any type of enthusiasts that wants to take advantage of their X and P related memory another option that we've got ahead incorporated here that's about streamlining the usability is to go ahead and actually give you fan control functionality but once again accessible right here from the easy mode interface so the user can go ahead and straight go right to this expansion tab and they can see actually each one of their fan headers what it's running out but if they want to go ahead make a quick adjustment I can just go ahead and set that to silent mode or can keep that when it's standard maybe if I've got a water cooling pump connected to this other one I could go ahead and you know set it to manual and then disable it within the manual fan options so we offer a much more advanced level of functionality immediately right there inside of the easy mode function so you don't have to worry about once again jumping into the Advanced section just to make something as simple as an adjustment to your Fantas settings what's this interesting thing right here it's it looks like a nice little diamond received performance quiet and energy-saving what's that this is a feature that we've actually already had in our previous generation you afi's but it allows you to quickly tune your system for one profile or another so if you want to have a quick kind of moderate overclock to your system such as like a 4.25 gigahertz and just go ahead and click on that button and it will automatically overclock your system and the click of a button now this is advantageous because we have TPU switches and EPS switches on the motherboard but what happens if you install your system inside the chassis but you still want to take advantage of that TPU switch function right don't why I actually have to open it up correct now you can just go inside the UEFI click this optimal button and you're good to go so normal is going to be stock was going to be an overclock and power savings going to go ahead and do that under volt to be able to go ahead and conserve some power be able to reduce the thermal footprint and maybe extend a little bit of the CPU lifespan so down here of course we maintain the drag and drop boot priorities we also got ahead and incorporated this great easy option for SATA information so I can go ahead and click on this and it will show me a real-time preview of all my drives as they're connected so I know which ports they're on write it this easy mode interface so you can see a couple of touches but overall add a lot more accessibility and usability straight off the bat here inside of the easy mode UEFI environment now us being a course here at eka tomorrow and we have a lot of advanced uses that when you own a see maybe the more advanced functionality of course we still keep the Advanced Mode so we're just going to go and reset things back to default and we're going to jump into the Advanced Mode there we go so immediately off the bat doesn't necessarily look too different but there are going to be some really big changes in terms of some key functionality that you have to offer such as the AI Tweaker I a Tweaker is actually what we've previously always offered in terms of tweaking all our performance related options like frequency multipliers and voltages well the first one that's going to be special right here is this item that's called quick note and what this is actually going to allow you do is actually create real time notes inside of UEFI they could persistently be saved so an example might be if I'm working with my platform I'm tweaking it I'm overclocking it and I figure out ok hey I need to be able to overclock 4.6 gigahertz is going to require 1.2 volts with no line load calibration I can make a note of that so I can go ahead and go to be able to complete stable over POC add to define 1.2 volts for a 46 X multiplier and you can go ahead and save that information now how many of those can you actually save in there how many different separate notes or that just one solid note it's one solid note but there's braking amongst it so of course you could just go ahead and you keep adding all the way down keep keep adding out and you want so you have that flexibility you could of course add if you want to even break it down by date and time just go ahead and store that information there when you're first typing it out to say that's with this information of that information so we feel this adds a whole new level of functionality and versatility so that you know for guys when they're tweaking and tuning your systems a lot of times you sometimes have a piece of paper and a pen just writing down your notes you don't have to worry about that anyway you can just save it all inside of the UEFI you can take advantage of it and when you reboot back in if you need to reference that information you just bring up your quick note and bam you have all that information right that's that's the only one very very interesting new feature and the great thing is like I said is it's not going to just be reserved for we're using a z87 deluxe series board but this is going to be on the z87 - a so even our entry-level a value oriented board is going to be able to offer you this functionality and this versatility that's excellent so we can go ahead and quit out quit out of that and keep moving along now one of the next options that we have got incorporated is my favorites this is a really cool way to be able to define the UEFI in an easy accessible way a lot of times there's lots of different options that are spread out throughout the UEFI and you might not necessarily need to have access to every single part of the UEFI because you just consistently use same portions of it over and over and over again right so we've previously had an f3 option which is great which is our integrated shortcut functionality so you can go ahead and have different options here that we predefined for you that would allow you to jump to different parts of the UEFI for this generation we've expanded on shortcut and added my favorites so what you can do is essentially go in here and we can fully modify whatever shortcuts you have available to you so let's say we can go ahead and take these out here and I can add whatever I want so let's say first off the bat I want to go ahead and maybe add something like serial ata configuration right I can go ahead and go to f4 and I can add it to my favorite page or excuse me I can go to and add it to my shortcut page so you can see right here if I go to f3 it's now set a configuration is available to me if I want to go ahead and maybe go to a overclock Tweaker and I want to be able to reach this section I can once again go here I can add it to that page we can go ahead and add it to my shortcut page so now you can notice that I have now a o'clock / tuner there and I can go in and set those options right off the bat from within quick store cut environment and you can add multiple items that my favorite page as well as you can go ahead and add multiple items to the shortcut page so you can see like maybe once again also if I want maybe something like my fan control functionality for like my CPU fan header are you go ahead and add that as well and now I have those options real time available to me there so I can always let's say even if I'm now here at the main screen right I want to jump straight over to that now it'll take me straight to that section yeah most people will use actually a few the option the BIOS and like you say they go back and forth those all the times that's a pretty cool thing like I'm your own quick shortcut way correct and it's fully definable by you so you can always go to any time if you want to go ahead and remove these you can just remove it from your my favorites page as well as you could go ahead and make adjustments to your shortcut page or you just go ahead and if maybe I don't want that option anymore I don't want that option anymore and I don't want that one anymore it's fully adjustable controllable I use but it allows you to have so much more flexibility in terms of just making sure that you have immediate easy access to the sections of the UEFI that you use most consistently yeah that's actually a really excellent option so moving from there we've also expanded on some other items so one of them that's really cool here is under satty configuration so if we go into this option and let's say you go over to here you can see that I've gone ahead and have some interesting names right if you look it says SATA SATA 6g to yellow right but it actually gives you a name how do I have a name inside the ua5 so did you name it yourself that's correct so if this actual system is set up in a raid configuration which we went ahead and load default so that's why it's not listing us raid but now what we have the fixture ability to do is that we can go in and we can rename any single port that's really cool so if you can imagine if you have maybe two three four hard drives you know one of my systems at home I have for two terabyte hard drives and they're all from the same vendor right and so when they show up in my UEFI I don't know actually which drive might be which driving which was connected to which port right so sometimes maybe if you're doing partitioning or deleting maybe secure racing volumes you always kind of have that worry hey you know which drive is it that I'm working you got remember it right you got to remember and that's like even on rrg boards why we had those those SATA cable labels that you could put on the drives to make this easier but now I can go ahead just click on this this is much better and I can go ahead and actually delete this so if I want to call this you know raid volume drive one that's it I can go ahead and rename it and it's persistent even when you reboot and save the UEFI you'll consistently now have these labels associated to whatever drives that you have attached to that so it allows you to just always have a more kind of personalized level of information on how you have your system set up so you can imagine you know maybe if I don't have anything connected that volume but they may be let's say if I want to say that I have me you know my you know that's my steam you know games directory right I know that that drive is that always a good drive to protect yes no ifs that um you know or if you had that maybe that's your personal backup or that's your photo volume that's your you know your video volume whatever it might be you just now have the flexibility you can go in and you can rename it to whatever you want one thing I wanna talk about here judges it's done awesome for too much but up here on the SATA mode selection button a lot of users still contact me and they don't know that you can change the things there to make your actually hard drive performance better they always want to set it to the standard they don't really understand you could set it to HCI I get much better performance yeah I mean the lucky thing is with all AC series motherboards to be default to HCI operation that's excellent so that makes sure that you're already getting the best out of performance right off the bag you don't need to worry about changing that but you're 100% right you know that if you were using a potentially competitive sport that could be defaulting into compatibility or ID mode and you're using a new generation SSD and a lot of users don't know they're making that simple change has a big impact on performance high 2% your correct so you know this we think is another once again really valuable level of functionality which is about us ultimately helping to show that what we're most interested in is not just adding something that looks interesting but ultimately something that we feel that we want users to be able to use at the end of the national yeah correct so that's another great option that we've gone ahead and incorporated inside of the UEFI and when you add that together with other aspects like the f12 a print screen function which course allows you to save screenshots of every single section to the UEFI as well as let's say inside the UEFI where you can go in you can go into the advance fan control functionality and be able to define full manual operation per each one of the headers you know for three pin or four pin control that adds even more versatility now a lot of time you also go into the UAF eye and you make a lot of changes so an example might be if I'd say I was going to go ahead and overclock my system I might enable XMP and then I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and set maybe my multiplier information so I set that and then maybe I'm going to define something else here and then I want to go ahead and make an adjustment it comes in my power configuration I'm going to say that I'm going to go ahead and make all these other little changes right that you might do when you're tweaking and tune your system sometimes you might not necessarily remember everything that you're doing right and so a great thing that we're now offering is going to be this last modified function so you can see here that when we actually complete a change to the system we can save a history of those things that are being executed upon so it'll save right to USB the same as like taking all the picture the bios screens no so you can see right here so i went to go save and exit right and when i went to go save and exit if you notice it gave me a history of all the little things that i've changed now so it gives you this great visual snapshot hey these are all the changes that you've made so right before you save you can kind of get a verification okay I set that adjust in terms of the frequency the voltages the load line calibration all those things that I want to go ahead and be conscious on you can see it all in one screen to them to scroll back through a bunch of different windows as well correct because you might not even remember sometimes you're maybe reading a foreign post or watching a video or something else and you don't remember so now we've given you essentially a consolidated history of all those levels of adjustment and the great thing is once you go ahead and actually execute your reboot and you make your adjustments you could also go into the last modified section and as you saw if you want to then save that and output it to a USB flash drive just like when you're doing the f12 print screen you can also track the data in that way as well that's really cool so that hopes it shows you some of the really cool features and functionality that we have integrated inside the UEFI that we feel helps to also maintain the great functionality and versatility of what we feel that we're bringing to the table now as you would expect there's even going to be some further options that are exclusive to ROG which we're going to show in a little bit cover also the complete scope of options that we have available now the very last thing that we do want to touch on is that we have gone ahead incorporated a new function that's called OC tuner which we had in a previous generation but it's been tuned for a little bit more flexibility as well so for users that sometimes want to be able to tag to take advantage of a quick way of auto overclocking their system instead of having to go through our software if you don't feel like loading that or installing your system or using GP switches and you want maybe a little bit more aggressive in overclock you can now go ahead and go in here leave as is and you can select either ratio only or BCA okay first and what that means is it'll automatically attempt to auto overclock the system through adjusting the ratio of the CPU multiplier or adjusting the BC LK and it will do dynamically without actually the require marry software now because we don't have an OS and you can't fully stress tests to the degree that we can with our audio tuning technology the result won't be as high but it'll still be a little bit more aggressive than the standard options that we have available so another cool functionality that we've integrated within the UEFI just another great option for overclocking yeah alright folks so there you have it the UEFI bios all its options from mainstream and ROG you know JJ you did a great job covering all that stuff those are all kinds of different kinds of options in your guys's new UEFI including you know what's something we didn't talk about is being able to just use a mouse so very simple and eloquently not having it bounce around or jiggedy-jaggedy with yours it just smoothly goes through and able to click all those options something that a lot of people will appreciate no I had a percent agree and actually thanks for calling it out because it's something that we've worked really hard on is that not just the feature set inside the UEFI but even the general responsiveness of it and even things like being able to key on manual entry values good simplified layout in terms of knowing where things are accessible to you they all come down to making sure that when you go inside that environment and you're working within it it's a smooth positive experience versus like you said something where it's hopping in and out maybe have weird transitions or animations it's just kind of can be sometimes in inconsistent or frustrating experience now you guys all know that asus has always been a pioneer when it comes to overclocking stuff and you can see that all these motherboards have really awesome overclocking features whether you're just somebody who doesn't know jack diddly about it you can click a button and get some easy simple overclocking or if you're an advanced user who knows his stuff you can go in there and modify and trick this thing out just all kinds of different ways hundred percent agree with that I mean definitely the UEFI though we feel also even adds value with even functions like the quick note or the SATA renaming you know or the easy fan control functionality we now have in the easy mode to even users that aren't overclocking centric so we've tried to give you guys a great balance of features that benefit the overclockers the standard users and the enthusiasts who cross both lines as far as needing things that are sensible and functional but also are looking for performance and edge functionality and you know at the same time - we'd love to hear you guys his feedback on things that you would love to see incorporated you know sometimes there's going to be differences that what can actually be done and what can't be done but we always love to hear the feedback so you guys hear that down the comments section below we're looking to hear your comment so tell us if you're a fan of Asus and you use their UEFI BIOS go ahead man give us your opinions your thoughts we always want to hear them here on ticker tomorrow Thank You JJ for once again coming out on being here and we've got more stuff coming up including overclocking and well you'll see we'll see you guys back here on teka tomorrow you