POWERFUL CONTROL PANEL - [ WarpSpeeder™ ]
BIOSTAR MICROTECH INT'L CORP. announces to
provide [ WarpSpeeder™ ] technology on most of motherboards. This
powerful control panel features three user-friendly functions including
Overclock Manager, Overvoltage Manager, and Hardware
Monitor.
With the Overclock Manager, users can easily adjust
the frequency they prefer or they can get the best CPU speed with just
one click. The Overvoltage Manager, on the other hand, helps to power up
CPU core voltage and Memory voltage. Also, the cool Hardware Monitor
smartly indicates the temperatures, voltage, CPU fan speed as well as
the chipset information. In addition, the frequency statuses of CPU,
memory, AGP, and PCI along with the CPU speed are synchronically shown
on our main panel.
Moreover, to protect users' computer systems if the setting is not
appropriate, [ WarpSpeeder™ ] technology assures the system stability by
automatically rebooting the computer and then restart to a speed that is
either the original system speed or a suitable one.
In a word, [ WarpSpeeder™ ] technology is definitely a latest BIOSTAR
innovation you cannot miss.
[
WarpSpeeder™ ]
3 Unique Advantages
Introduction
[ WarpSpeeder™ ], a new powerful control utility, features three
user-friendly functions including Overclock Manager, Overvoltage
Manager, and Hardware Monitor.
With the Overclock Manager, users can easily adjust the frequency
they prefer or they can get the best CPU performance with just one
click. The Overvoltage Manager, on the other hand, helps to power up CPU
core voltage and Memory voltage. The cool Hardware Monitor smartly
indicates the temperatures, voltage and CPU fan speed as well as the
chipset information. Also, in the About panel, you can get detail
descriptions about BIOS model and chipsets. In addition, the frequency
status of CPU, memory, AGP and PCI along with the CPU speed are
synchronically shown on our main panel.
Moreover, to protect users' computer systems if the setting is not
appropriate when testing and results in system fail or hang, [
WarpSpeeder™ ] technology assures the system stability by automatically
rebooting the computer and then restart to a speed that is either the
original system speed or a suitable one.
System Requirement
OS Support: Windows 98 SE, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows XP
DirectX: DirectX 8.1 or above. (The Windows XP operating system
includes DirectX 8.1. If you use Windows XP, you do not need to install
DirectX 8.1.)
Installation
1. Execute the setup execution file, and then the following dialog
will pop up. Please click "Next" button and follow the default procedure
to install.
2. When you see the following dialog in setup procedure, it means
setup is completed. If the "Launch the WarpSpeeder Tray Utility"
checkbox is checked, the Tray Icon utility and [WarpSpeeder™] utility
will be automatically and immediately launched after you click "Finish"
button.
Usage
The following figures are just only for
reference, the screen printed in this user manual will change according
to your motherboard on hand.
[WarpSpeeder™] includes 1 tray icon and 5 panels:
1. Tray Icon:
Whenever the Tray Icon
utility is launched, it will display a little tray icon on the right
side of Windows Taskbar.
This utility is responsible for conveniently invoking [WarpSpeeder™]
Utility. You can use the mouse by clicking the left button in order to
invoke [WarpSpeeder™] directly from the little tray icon or you can
right-click the little tray icon to pop up a popup menu as following
figure. The "Launch Utility" item in the popup menu has the same
function as mouse left-click on tray icon and "Exit" item will close
Tray Icon utility if selected.
2. Main Panel
If you click the tray
icon, [ WarpSpeeder™ ] utility will be invoked. Please refer do the
following figure; the utility's first window you will see is Main Panel.
Main Panel contains features as follows:
a. Display the CPU Speed, CPU external clock, Memory clock, AGP
clock, and PCI clock information.
b. Contains About, Voltage,
Overclock, and Hardware Monitor Buttons for invoking respective panels.
c. With a user-friendly Status Animation, it can represent 3
overclock percentage stages:
Duck walking => overclock percentage from 100% ~ 110
%
Duck running => overclock percentage from 110% ~ 120%
Duck
burning => overclock percentage from 120% ~ above
3. Voltage Panel
Click the Voltage
button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Voltage
Panel will slide out to up as the following figure.
In this panel, you can decide to increase CPU core voltage and Memory
voltage or not. The default setting is "No". If you want to get the best
performance of overclocking, we recommend you click the option "Yes".
4. Overclock Panel
Click the Overclock
button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the Overclock
Panel will slide out to left as the following figure.
Overclock Panel contains the these features:
a. "-3MHz button", "-1MHz button", "+1MHz button", and "+3MHz
button": provide user the ability to do real-time overclock adjustment.
Warning: Manually overclock is potentially
dangerous, especially when the overclocking percentage is over 110 %. We
strongly recommend you verify every speed you overclock by click the
Verify button. Or, you can just click Auto overclock button and let [
WarpSpeeder™ ] automatically gets the best result for you.
b. "Recovery Dialog button": Pop up the following dialog. Let user
select a restoring way if system need to do a fail-safe reboot.
c. "Auto-overclock button": User can click this button and [
WarpSpeeder™ ] will set the best and stable performance and frequency
automatically. [ WarpSpeeder™ ] utility will execute a series of testing
until system fail. Then system will do fail-safe reboot by using
Watchdog function. After reboot, the [ WarpSpeeder™ ] utility will
restore to the hardware default setting or load the verified best and
stable frequency according to the Recovery Dialog's setting.
d. "Verify button": User can click this button and [ WarpSpeeder™ ]
will proceed a testing for current frequency. If the testing is ok, then
the current frequency will be saved into system registry. If the testing
fail, system will do a fail-safe rebooting. After reboot, the [
WarpSpeeder™ ] utility will restore to the hardware default setting or
load the verified best and stable frequency according to the Recovery
Dialog's setting.
Note: Because the testing programs, invoked in
Auto-overclock and Verify, include DirectDraw, Direct3D and DirectShow
tests, the DirectX 8.1 or newer runtime library is required. And please
make sure your display card's color depth is High color (16 bit) or True
color( 24/32 bit ) that is required for Direct3D rendering.
5. Hardware Monitor Panel
Click the
Hardware Monitor button in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted
and the Hardware Monitor panel will slide out to left as the following
figure.
In this panel, you can get the real-time status information of your
system. The information will be refreshed every 1 second.
6. About Panel
Click the About button
in Main Panel, the button will be highlighted and the About Panel will
slide out to up as the following figure.
In this panel, you can get model name and detail information in hints
of all the chipset that are related to overclocking. You can also get
the mainboard's BIOS model and the Version number of [ WarpSpeeder™ ]
utility.
Note: Because the overclock, overvoltage, and
hardware monitor features are controlled by several separate chipset, [
WarpSpeeder™ ] divide these features to separate panels. If one chipset
is not built in on board, the correlative button in Main panel will be
disabled, but will not interfere other panels' functions. This property
can make [ WarpSpeeder™ ] utility more robust.
About BIOSTAR MICROTECH INT'L CORP.
Since
its establishment in 1986, the BIOSTAR GROUP has become a major
motherboard supplier to the PC industry in Taiwan. In order to pursue
continuous growth, BIOSTAR has invested heavily in acquiring the
physical and human resources to excel research and development. In every
endeavor, BIOSTAR has sought to enhance product quality and expand its
range of available products.
In addition to producing quality motherboards, BIOSTAR
also carries out mini PC system - iDEQ series - the intelligent Desktop
trends for the near future and IA product. A wider product range
provides buyers with choices they want and need. With a constant
emphasis on quality, BIOSTAR seeks to offer products with the highest
price-performance ratio in the industry.
