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ASUS simplifies one-touch overclocking with ROG OC Station

by Parm Mann on 21 May 2009, 11:06

Tags: ROG OC Station, ASUSTeK (TPE:2357)

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Forget about all that girly Eee nonsense, ASUS is still keeping up with its efforts on the enthusiast front and has today expanded on its Republic of Gamers line with the launch of its ROG OC Station.

As the name suggests, the OC Station is a hardware-based, bay-mounted device that promises to "take overclocking to a whole new level of ease, accuracy and sophistication".

The unit, pictured above, slots into two 5.25in drive bays and provides real-time access to system voltages, frequencies, temperatures, and fan speeds, as well as providing the all-important audio alarm. Unlike many bay-mounted units, ASUS' OC Station looks pretty impressive - thanks largely to the 3in TFT-LCD display.

We've not seen it in action, we must admit, but ASUS reckons its display is bright and large, making it easily readable from afar - and it can also be used to display photo slideshows, too. Can't quite see it under your desk? Not to worry, it also tilts upward by 30° to ensure easy viewing.

On-the-fly overclocking should function with most existing systems, but ASUS adds that the OC Staion's able to interface with the iROG controller on ROG motherboards - such as the recently reviewed Rampage II GENE - providing access to ROG-specific features such as CPU Level Up and ASUS EPU-6 Engine.

There's no mention of price, but we're certain to see the OC Station in action at next month's COMPUTEX,



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Does this system allow shareable profiles ?

It would be good. Say person X tweaks everything and enables a 4ghz stable OC, It stores info such as motherboard ram and cpu type. The settings are then able to be passed to others with a matching configuration.

OC'ing is far to fiddly for many due to the vast amount of settings that need tweaking to get things just right.

Sure the same components don't always achieve the same performance, however they are close.
Call me old fashioned but i prefer tweaking the bios and rebooting the machine 100 times to get it right, gives you a real sense of achievement once its stable, however times change and this little bit kit looks lovely so id like to have a go, see whats its capable of doing
Looks expensive and uses 2 drive bays.

I'll be sticking to the BIOS for now :P
Standard Asus Rampage (and RE2) boards allow for on the fly overclocking anyway on a small little screen the size of a USB stick, with the controls directly on the motherboard (or bound to keys in the case of the Gene).

This just moves everything related to that to a screen with some dials. For top line overclockers pushing the boundary, this would be a lot easier than trying to change settings when dealing with LN2 everywhere.
Cant say i see my self using Liquid Nitrogen any time soon, but yeah i guess it would be a help if i was, just like anything and everything their always finding ways to make things easier and more accessible which in part is a good thing, but it does draw away slighty from the skill and patience involved in overclocking?