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    ASUS Easy Overclock Bios setting?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Blueliger, Oct 29, 2010.

  1. Blueliger

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    bios 211, v93 bios

    was just wondering what it did exactly cause i switched to Normal from Turbo just to see any performance difference, i don't know for sure what it did o_O all core speeds look the same.

    was just wondering any answers would be appreciated.
     
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  2. CrappyAlloy

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    If you turn it to turbo (as you did) the built in twin-turbo mode is activated upon start up
     
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    Oh, well whats TwinTurbo? Lol

    mines 5 weeks old still learning about it
     
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    You know the the three buttons on the top right of the computer? Well pressing the middle one activates it, if you have asus's power4gear installed. It slightly overclocks the cpu and ram, hence "twin" turbo, but if you set it to turbo in the bios, I know it starts up in twin turbo mode...im not sure if you can turn it off though, until you set it back to normal in bios, so you have full control of it inside windows. You have power4gear installed?
     
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    Power4gear installed

    Bios = normal

    i do click on it once in awhile i just wanted to know what exactly it did
     
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    Ya it seems to only help in some scenarios, and for that reason I never use it. Others like to reprogram the key to use setFSB to do some real overclocking, but I havent had a need for any overclocking yet. All good then? lol
     
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    I'm with you Blue. It would be nice to have a recap of the Turbo function. I seem to recall that having it enabled helps applications that are not heavily threaded to take advantage of multiple cores. Is this assumption correct?
    I'm slogging through Cryostasis (who knows why) right now and having it enabled seems to help this poorly coded game play smoother.
     
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    ^I believe your correct, but I wasnt one of the original ones to do heavy testing of it to be completely sure. Someone else may be able to chime in
     
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    It helps with single-thread apps. Multi-threaded ones will loose performance.

    For example:

    Dragon Age non-TwinTurbo FPS: 58
    Turbo Enabled: 52

    The reason is that the overclock drops the multiplier and TurboBoost won't ramp up as much.
     
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    Thanks Chastity!
     
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    Chastity, I promise to not die trying, but please tell me how I can find out what fps I get in my games (Modern Warware 2, Metro 2033)? :confused:

    many thanks ;)
     
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    I use FRAPS to measure FPS in games.
     
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    Since the performance increment provided by TwinTurbo is hardly visible, would it be possible to alter the overdrive settings of the P4G software (perhaps some cracks involved :D )? It can be much more convenient than using setFSB...
     
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    Great Question!


    got the same one
     
    RampageX, Nov 6, 2010
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