Overclocking gets simpler than ever with Asus' new ROG hardware controller.
After tipping up on the Internet last week (and being showed to some lucky Atomicans at the recent ASUS Insights event at Atomic HQ), Asus' ROG OC Station has finally been officially launched as part of the Taiwanese firm's Republic of Gamers product line targeted at enthusiasts.
The hardware controller gives users easy access to fiddle about with their system's specs, allowing them to tweak things like voltages, frequencies, temperatures and fan speeds without having to go through the BIOS, and a reboot cycle, to make every change. This, says Asus, gives its device the potential to "take overclocking to a whole new level of ease, accuracy and sophistication."
Optimised for ROG motherboards - and their inbuilt IROG controller - Asus boasts its OC Station can benefit from ROG-specific features like CPU Level UP and ASUS EPU-6 Engine, but should also work with most other existing systems.
The device can be bunged into two 5.25-inch bays and includes a 3-inch TFT-LCD display so users can actually see what they're doing to their system. The display can even be angled up by 30 degrees for those who want to shove it under their desk.
Of course, when Asus showed it off to us there were a few hiccups - the entire system locked up on more than one occasion. But that was an engineering sample, and we can imagine the Asus engineers working on the device (the ones who showed it off to us) rushed back home to get the thing working solidly.
When we can get our greedy little hands on one for our own testing, we'll let you know all about it.
Issue: 111 | April, 2010