Asus Unveils Standalone Overclocking Device

[exfileme]

Recently Asus revealed its ROG (Republic of Gamers) OC Station, a hardware-based, bay mounted device made especially for its ROC motherboards.

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[IronRyan21]

Its on my wish list, pls santa . . . .

 

[Shadow703793]

Nice little gadget. I wouldn't personally do any OCing through it but I would hack it to display temps via RealTemp or calibrated SpeedFan; main reason for hacking it is because those onboard readings from the BIOS/manufacture software can be off as much as by 10-15C. Or hack it to display a music player,widgets,etc.

 

[ViPr]

i'm not a luddite so don't insult me but i don't really understand why people bother with overclocking when the gains are so negligible. i would understand if it could boost the performance by multiple times but it doesn't even get close to doubling performance.

 

[Guest]

umm, awesome!

 

[christop]

Is this needed?? I can oc my pn5-d to the max if I could keep it cool..

 

[dragonfang18]

Dont you mean ROG motherboards?

That would be cool if they actually told us how it works in the OC process...

 

[joex444]

[citation][nom]ViPr[/nom]i'm not a luddite so don't insult me but i don't really understand why people bother with overclocking when the gains are so negligible. i would understand if it could boost the performance by multiple times but it doesn't even get close to doubling performance.[/citation]

If you can take a quad core 2.4GHz, say the Q6600, to 3.2GHz that's a 50% improvement in performance for absolutely no cost. I bought a Q6600 for $190 (OEM). A retail 3.0GHz quad core is $325. They don't even make a LGA775 3.2GHz quad. So to get that performance, I could have spent an extra $135 or simply overclocked. (And, yes, you do need a nicer motherboard. But you do not need one that costs $135 more than the entry-level tier-1 boards). Oh, and running a higher FSB and RAM speed also improves performance somewhat.

Or how about the previous OC I had, before going quad core? Same board, took an E4300 at 1.8GHz to 2.93GHz. At the time I bought this, the fastest CPUs under $500 was a 2.66GHz dual core. I mean, this was like mid-2006. The E4300 was under $200. You kind of see the point here? Do you really need a 3.2GHz quad, or a 2.93GHz dual core (three years ago)? No, but why run a 2.4GHz quad or a 1.8GHz dual (honestly, not fast) when the faster speeds are available for free?

 

[B-Unit]

[citation][nom]ViPr[/nom]i'm not a luddite so don't insult me but i don't really understand why people bother with overclocking when the gains are so negligible. i would understand if it could boost the performance by multiple times but it doesn't even get close to doubling performance.[/citation]
It depends what/how much you overclock. I took an Opteron165 which comes stock at 1.8Ghz and was able to OC all the way to 2.9Ghz, which I would have had to have paid many times as much money to get with a stock clocked CPU.
There are many stories of E2x00 Pentium Dual Cores going from 1.8-2.0 Ghz to nearly 4.0Ghz, potentially doubling performance. Overclocking is a way to get top-tier performance for entry-level prices.

 

[computabug]

Aww Gigabyte should make something like this...

ViPr got schooled... maybe he has a P4 or something that doesn't OC very well But he has a small point, some people do spend hundreds of dollars on water cooling+e5200, when instead, they could just spend a bit more and get an air cooler+e8400 for less and better performance. Just an example And then they fry it, wasting all their efforts and money altogether

But yes, joex444 is right. Core 2's overclock very nicely with just about any motherboards, and if you're on a very tight budget with the worst C2D chip, you can even OC with a stock cooler, since C2D's don't produce that much heat...

 

[Upendra09]

This is gadget is going to sell a lot, ASUS just got a lot of business

Smart move

 

[Guest]

But what's the point, exactly, of overclocking? I've overclocked several CPU's that I've had over the past few years, and apart from the buggy performance that pops up every now and then, when using real world applications, you notice absolutely NO performance gains whatsoever.

You can have a CPU running at a gazillion gigahertz; if the video, hard disk and memory subsystems aren't brought up to the same speed, then you're perpetually stuck with sluggish, 1990's performance.

 

[eagles453809]

WRONG you know not of which you speak...be gone.

 

[starhoof]

Its a great idea, i wonder how well it actualy works, since a lot of controlers have a lot of problems with them, and how much does this actualy cost ?

 

[scook9]

I have been eyeballing this, but unless its $50 or less, no go. And I am afraid I dont think Asus will let them go cheap.....because its Asus. They will probably think, if you spent hundreds on an ROG board, why not $100 for this. A word on price would have been nice Tom's

 

[anamaniac]

[citation][nom]scook9[/nom]I have been eyeballing this, but unless its $50 or less, no go. And I am afraid I dont think Asus will let them go cheap.....because its Asus. They will probably think, if you spent hundreds on an ROG board, why not $100 for this. A word on price would have been nice Tom's[/citation]

Nicely put.
A fun lil gadget to save you a little time... not worth an extreme amount of money.

 

[zolddude-tkc]

Well I used to OC my Optrons a full 50% on stock volts and that was well worth the 10 minutes of my time to do so.

As for this device...I can't see anyone interested in overclocking willing to pay for it unless they can't understand how to use Google to find a tut on how to do so.

 

[Guest]

To the one above who says Intel doesn't make a 775 3.2 quad. They do, the X3380.

 

[brendano257]

Ummm.....hahahaha...I love it when people call BS on OC'ing. It's benefits are there for real, look at any of the Tom's systems they build, then look at the difference they get out of OC'ing the graphics and cpu. It's amazing and for 0$. Even just bringing up the CPU increases performance if you're bottlenecked, or use mostly RTS, or CPU intensive games/programs.

If you don't want to OC, don't. But don't tell us it doesn't work/causes worse performance.

 

[curnel_D]

[citation][nom]ViPr[/nom]i'm not a luddite so don't insult me but i don't really understand why people bother with overclocking when the gains are so negligible. i would understand if it could boost the performance by multiple times but it doesn't even get close to doubling performance.[/citation]
Lol, tell my whimpy $80 e2160 that, who went from a slow 1.6 Ghz to a speedy 3.2 Ghz.

 

[radiowars]

Looks great. I hope it doesn't cost too much

 

[buzznut]

If reasonable I might consider gettin something like this, but I bet its gonna go about $200+
The bling factor and ability to do photo screen saver might be a cool thing.

But on my Antec 900 I wouldn't wanna give up an intake fan to fit it in there!
Its kinda funny how people who don't overclock seem to know all about how it doesn't help performance.

 

[ssddx]

Overclocking Fanboys: Please do keep in mind that not all users are willing to void warranties for an average gain of 25-50% for the cpu. The cost of replacing a fried chip would be more than the cost of upgrading in the first place in most situations. Also: If the user only overclocks the cpu the gains will be negligible if the cpu was never the bottleneck in the first place. Often some great ram & fast hds can speed up performance more than a minor tweak to the cpu only. DO be considerate when responding to others, as they might see things quite differently then you do. Thanks.

 

[Guest]

Probably only works with Asus mobo's? How else would it gain access to these feats that you sometimes won't even find in the bios?

 

[blackened144]

[citation][nom]ssddx[/nom]Overclocking Fanboys: Please do keep in mind that not all users are willing to void warranties for an average gain of 25-50% for the cpu. The cost of replacing a fried chip would be more than the cost of upgrading in the first place in most situations. Also: If the user only overclocks the cpu the gains will be negligible if the cpu was never the bottleneck in the first place. Often some great ram & fast hds can speed up performance more than a minor tweak to the cpu only. DO be considerate when responding to others, as they might see things quite differently then you do. Thanks.[/citation]
So its important for us to be considerate of you, but when an article about OCing comes out we have to listen to you guys bitch and moan and insult us by telling us how useless our OCing is?