TurboV software and EPU
TurboV software and EPU
Much Like MSI did with their GD80 motherboard, ASUS also has an embedded chip on the motherboard to ease up overclocking. The ASUS solution is more complex and software based. Let's have a look at the 'easy' automated overclocking feature:
Now by itself ASUS auto tuning works really nice. You get full screen info on the automated overclocking process and nearly is a cinematic experience. The overclock end-result is a substantial one, but the process is dog slow ...
* sorry for the lousy screenshots, but the ASUS software uses some sort of weird overlay that doesn't allow for screenshots, hence some screenshots from ASUS.
We started the Auto tuning feature as I was very curious what maximum overclock the Automatic Tuning software would end up with. However at one point I just decided to simply go out and have lunch. It took this application 35~40 minutes auto clocking, testing and restarting (all automated though) before the software reached 3768 GHz with a memory overclock to ~1600MHz.
These are the final values:
- CPU Clock frequency 3768 MHz
- Base Clock Frequency 157
- Multiplier 24
- Memory clock frequency 786.7x2= 1573 MHz (CAS 9:11:11:19 2T)
- CPU Voltage 1.1375
- Memory Voltage 1.65
So though the OC processes is slow, in all fairness it definitely is an extensive one. The good thing is that the auto overclocking feature also entails a stress test with each OC pass. So whatever the result is, your system should be stable.
Once your system is overclocked you can save it as a profile and enable it at startup of windows or just at whenever you desire it. Very nice.
