Asus AI Suite for P5N-T Deluxe 780i

Xion · 30 Jan 2008 at 13:47

I was wondering, to those who have this board, is it worth using the AI Suite utility? At the moment i have it on, and its on the "High Performance" Mode, and have set Chassis and CPU fan to "performance". Haven't played around with any overlocking or anything yet. Just wondering if this utility is worth using, or just uninstall it?

GunRunner · 30 Jan 2008 at 17:30

Xion said:
I was wondering, to those who have this board, is it worth using the AI Suite utility? At the moment i have it on, and its on the "High Performance" Mode, and have set Chassis and CPU fan to "performance". Haven't played around with any overlocking or anything yet. Just wondering if this utility is worth using, or just uninstall it?

I have this board because I got fed up with EVGA 680i motherboards x2 that would not boot after disconnecting the power lead and then reconnecting it. I had to keep pressing the power switch on the front of the case approx 20 times before they would start. Anyway, that is another story.

Back to the AI Suite utility. I dont normally bother with over clocking, I like to run SLI that is why I buy the nvidia chip set boards. However, I have tried this utility, and am running it at 15% and it is working fine with the Flight Sim Forgotten Battles. I have a C2D 6600 and a BFG 8800GT OC2 (waiting for next stock for 2nd one). Anyway, I found the game ran fine for hours on end, and thought everything was fine until I came to type in this box and found that the cursor jumped from one line to the next. I changed back to default from the 15% overclock and now the cursor does not jump randomly. I presume this is instability? I dont know, but hopefully someone with overclocking experience here will advise me. I have upgraded the BIOS to 0703 as well.

Xion · 30 Jan 2008 at 23:46

Hmm thanks for the feedback there, yeah that seems quite weird whats happening when you went to 15%. Im wondering if im benifiting or not by using the Suite and the ASUS AI Gear3 Mode: High Performance stuff.

GunRunner · 31 Jan 2008 at 00:50

I am now carrying out some experimenting and not using the the suite but doing it manually in the BIOS. Just like most people do here. So far I am running the processor C2D E6600 at 3.0 ghz but have left the memory unlinked and running it at its default of 800 Mhz. It is stable and more to the point I dont have the jumping cursor problem. It looked like the linking of the memory and overclocking everything by the percentage value was the problem. It is early days yet though. From this point onwards I will NOT be using the AI suite to overclock, but experimenting more with the manual settings to get my IL2 Forgotten Battles Flight Sim to run as fast as possible crash free.