System Agent (Sa) Configuration; Pch Configuration; Pci Express Configuration; Pch Storage Configuration - Asus PRIME Z370-A Serie Bedienungsanleitung

3.6.3

System Agent (SA) Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to adjust the Link Speed for PEG Port and Multi-Monitor.
3.6.4

PCH Configuration

The items in this menu allow you to adjust the PCH PCI Express speed.

PCI Express Configuration

This item allows you to configure the PCI Express slots.
PCIe Speed
This item allows your system to automatically select the PCI Express port speed.
Configuration options: [Auto] [Gen1] [Gen2] [Gen3]
3.6.5

PCH Storage Configuration

While entering Setup, the BIOS automatically detects the presence of SATA devices. The
SATA Port items show Not Present if no SATA device is installed to the corresponding SATA
port.
SATA Controller(s)
This item allows you to enable or disable the SATA Device.
Configuration options: [Disabled] [Enabled]
SATA Mode Selection
This item allows you to set the SATA configuration.
[AHCI]
[Intel RST Premium
With Intel Optane
System Acceleration
(RAID)]
ASUS PRIME Z370-A Series
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.
Set to [Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System
Acceleration (RAID)] when you want to create a RAID
configuration from the SATA hard disk drives.
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