Manual overclocking only for the really addicted? Perharps even more interesting, the results Extreme Tuning accomplished was on the same level as those an experienced overclocker could do in the same timeframe.

With a sturdy air cooler and one of Intel’s powerful unlocked Sandy Bridge processors – which should limit the percentage overclocking potential – it has in early tests reach frequency improvements of 44%. Wit all of the parameters Extreme Tuning takes into consideration the automatic overclocking will not only be affected by the unique properties of every CPU but also cooling and other external factors.Īccording to the information NordicHardware has taken part of the technology looks to work better than hoped and even if said we can’t draw any real conclusions before having tested it – which will happen soon – we have witnessed some early result. Earlier automatic overclocking functions have relied on software and simply calculated what the components of the system should be capable of doing, which has often turned out very conservative.

The application of Extreme Tuning is unique in the sense that it allows the hardware – in the case motherboard and CPU – control the final result. It all starts with a simple push of a button and after that the ”overclocker” can sit back and wait for the 5-10 minutes the Extreme test takes.Įxtreme Tuning’s workflow Extreme Tuning brings out the most of your hardware Increase clock frequencies, voltages and tighten up latencies to finally run some automatic stability tests.

In short, the TPU processor will act as the overclocker and go through similar routines as the regular user. As this also goes into the step by step self tuning process, it will try to overclock the system till the OS crash or CPU begins to throttle, hence one OS crash event may be expected before the completion of the auto tuning process. If we focus on Extreme Tuning that is the most interesting to us, ASUS had the following to say Įxtreme Tuning is the advanced version of Fast Tuning, where the system will overclock the CPU via Fast Tuning, then continue to tune system performance till the top performance is reached. ASUS supplies two different automatic overclocking functions – Fast and Extreme – that are found in the EFI BIOS and the software TurboV EVO.

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