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    asus overclocking feature

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by imhungry29, Apr 17, 2009.

  1. imhungry29

    imhungry29 Notebook Evangelist

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    hey i was just wondering what the direct console overclocking feature does. does it actually bump up the Mhz on the cpu or gpu? i really dont see a difference when i play games with it on or off. thanks in advance for the help
     
    imhungry29, Apr 17, 2009
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    Buhdahl Notebook Evangelist

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    It bumps up the clock speed of your processor. In CPU intensive tasks or massive multitasking, you will see an improvement.

    As for gaming, the GPU is the limiting factor for your games, so no matter how much the CPU overclocks you won't notice much.
     
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    stouf Notebook Consultant

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    You're not talking about GTA4 ? :D
     
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    Just out of curioisty whats the P7450's clock at the max?

    I just overclocked this pentium 2 to 504Mhz it was flying till the agp bus decided it wasnt happy. In fact with the 133mhz ram in my beast i should be able to clock to that the video wont even go lol. Damned old MSI LMAO.
     
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    Agreed. Gaming performance goes up maybe two frames per second if I jack it at 1280x800 on medium settings for Crysis, and not much else. Consider it more for when you need to multitask, say, with music and maybe a flash game, or extra programs in the background.
     
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    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    It basically overclocks the core clock of the CPU, kinda similar to a GPU overclock. Thought the performance increase all depends on the CPU itself. My notebook has the Intel Core 2 Duo P8400 and with this function it overclocks from 2.26Ghz to around 2.5Ghz. The interesting thing is that the 2.26Ghz P8400 has basically the same specs as the 2.4Ghz P8600 and so the ASUS overclock pretty brings it up in pair to that. With this feature in Battlefield 2 I saw a jump from 89FPS to 99FPS, so not much of a boost.
     
    Cheeseman, Apr 18, 2009
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