ASUS AI Suite II

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Just built my first sytem with an Antec 300 case, Asus P8Z68 - V / Gen 3 board, i7 2700K, 8 Gb Kingston HyperX Genesis grey 1600 DDR3 and re-used (drat!) my GTX 280 (for now! Lol)....

All works bob-on, but I am concerned about this AI Suite II package.

Do I need any or all of it? Should I bin it completely? Or only uninstall certain bits? What about the EPU, Digi+VRM and TPU bits??


Appreciate any help.
 
AI suite is actually really good.

I find my stable OC's using it with the turbo function (manual not automatic), then set them in BIOS.

Updates your BIOS and has a built in monitoring feature which I find more accurate than a lot of tools (more accurate clock speed compared to CPU-z, etc...)
 
Best part of it is fan expert, the rest i can live without. And i certainly wouldnt go updating the bios via a windows utility. Much safer to use asus ez flash with a usb drive in the bios. The asus windows flashing utility has a track record for killing boards.
 
It was rubbish a few years back when I first installed it. It was reporting false readings on temps and voltages. NB overheat bla bla. Nearly 4 years on it's still not blown up and I still use the same board today.

I'm sure it's a lot better now however with newer boards as well. I personally don't like programs like that. They just torment you with constant checking and tweaking. Use the BIOS/UEFI for whatever needs doing.
 
AI Suite I sucked

II is much better. You can fully customise warning thresholds and turn them off entirely if you wish. You do not need to have warnings for anything you do not. The only one I have configured is VCORE and Core Temp.

It also does logging which is useful when doing an overnight stability burn...nice to look over the vcore peak values etc.
 
Sin_Chase said:
What settings?
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Well, I wouldn't know how to overclock manually so would use the auto function. If I wanted or needed to, could I revert -through the software- back to factory/standard settings (i.e.) CPU speed, etc? Does this happen anyway when you log off or uninstall the software package?
 
I would like to use fan xpert but it doesn't work properly for me (I also have the latest BIOS revision)

When I boot up, it never remembers the settings I put in last time, it is also on 'Disabled' when I reboot, so fans are running at full speed

Any ideas anyone?
 
Sin_Chase said:
AI Suite I sucked

II is much better. You can fully customise warning thresholds and turn them off entirely if you wish. You do not need to have warnings for anything you do not. The only one I have configured is VCORE and Core Temp.

It also does logging which is useful when doing an overnight stability burn...nice to look over the vcore peak values etc.
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Ahh... Sounds a lot better than what I had! Wonder if it's available for my Maximus Formula?
 
pattojones said:
Just built my first sytem with an Antec 300 case, Asus P8Z68 - V / Gen 3 board, i7 2700K, 8 Gb Kingston HyperX Genesis grey 1600 DDR3 and re-used (drat!) my GTX 280 (for now! Lol)....
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You shelled out for a 2700k over a 2500k and kept your gtx280?! I hope you arent a gamer because if you are that is just masochistic!

In all seriousness though... the program in question is sound.
 
setter said:
Do you have cpu q-fan enabled in bios, and a profile chosen?
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Yeah I do, it is set as 'Standard' in the BIOS

But whenever I reboot, after a few seconds (presumably when AI Suite II is fully loaded), the fans all speed up, I check the fan speed in AI Suite and it is on 'Disabled'

Hmmmmm
 
I like it, its pretty useful, the monitoring tools are good so far as I can tell and I got a nice easy overclock of just under 4.5Ghz using the auto tune :D . (Plus the V Core alert was useful when i attempted to do the overclock my self.)
 
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