ASUS AI Gear

[Magic Man]

Just playing around with the overclocking software that comes with the Asus boards.

Tried AI Gear 2 - moving the 'stick' from performance highest to lowest drops the voltage to the E6850 from 1.328v to 1.176v

No issues with this I assume...? I.e. for use when web browsing etc. Speedstep already drops the multiplier to 6 giving 2GHz instead of 3GHz - this takes down the voltage too.

 

[easyrider]

overclock in the bios period

 

[Magic Man]

Yep, I know, but this gives the ability to drop whilst in Windows, i.e. for browsing when I don't need the chip running at max speed and volts...

I.e. cooler and less power being wasted

 

[Biffa]

If you overclock in the bios but leave speedstep on it will still drop down to slow speeds when its not in use.