Has anyone ever used Asus CPU Level Up ?

roderz88 · 28 Jan 2011 at 12:17

I used it in the BIOS on my motherboard and selected it to OC my CPU to 3.4GHz, whilst doing that, it set my RAM from 1333MHz to 1400 something MHz. However if I set it to 3.6, it lowers the RAM to 1200MHZ. Would it be best to leave the CPU at 3.4GHZ and keep the higher RAM frequency, or use the higher CPU clock speed and have lower RAM frequency ?

Should I instead try and overclock the CPU manually ? I didnt opt to do that manually because Im not confident with voltages and things like NB and RAM settings.

95thrifles · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:12

higher CPU and lower RAM, always, the mobo has to apply one of a set number of dividers to the FSB in order to get the RAM freq, push CPU as high as it will let you, dont owrry bout RAM speeds, has very little effect
Manual OCing is a finer art with better results though if you have time/patience

The Halk · 28 Jan 2011 at 15:20

Level up doesn't work in the way I had imagined it would.

I thought for example it'd take my 1090T and act as if it was the 1100T. However it just seems to be a set overclock. Auto-overclocking doesn't seem to cut it though, you're usually better off with manual overclocking.

Harvey616 · 28 Jan 2011 at 16:06

I tried to use CPU Level up on my Phenom 555, and it didn't seem to overclock it by much- maybe 100Mhz.

Much easier to do it manually, mine is now running at 3.8Ghz stock volts.

95thrifles · 28 Jan 2011 at 17:54

The Halk said:
Level up doesn't work in the way I had imagined it would.

I thought for example it'd take my 1090T and act as if it was the 1100T. However it just seems to be a set overclock. Auto-overclocking doesn't seem to cut it though, you're usually better off with manual overclocking.

I have CPU level up on may rampage formula mark one, and when first got it there were no level up options as I had the highest chip available, but as more chips get released above your chip and you do BIOS update, this is how it works (or certainly gives you option to select one of the higher chips - never actually done it to be fair - manual all the way)