BIOS features killed my game performance?

[Method9]

I am going to go back to try and isolate which BIOS change did this. Basically, I made a few tweaks in my CMOS setup utility, since my motherboard is only about 2 weeks old and I've left everything in the default settings until now. I wanted to explore all of the fancy BIOS enhancements advertised on the motherboard's box.

I changed:
-Turned on Q-fan for CPU fan (chassis Q-fan still off)
-Turned on ESD guard (this feature is non-existent in the motherboard book, oddly, but the gist of it is found in this video).
-Turned on Asus Expressgate w/5 second timer

After this, the game I've been playing, Witcher, was unacceptably slow at full settings & at 1920x1080 . I went back and undid the BIOS changes and the game runs perfectly. Anyone heard of ESD guard slowing things down? Perhaps Expressgate?

 

[The_Other_One]

Try to undo the changes you made, perhaps even just resetting the bios.

BTW... that ESD is a load of crap. Maybe it'd help in some cases, but I've shocked the hell out of my computer at work (I could clearly see the spark as I plugged in a flash drive) and there was no damage to speak of.