Asus joins the unofficial overclocking club. Asus has introduced its Asus Performance Enhancement (APE) feature for a selected bunch of Intel 400-series, non-Z motherboards. As reported by BenchLife, the feature is available through a new firmware.

Our latest generation of Z390 motherboards takes automatic tuning to a whole new level with intelligent prediction. AI Overclocking is faster and more efficient than other methods, and it allows you to overclock a system in just a few short steps from the UEFI or desktop.

ASUS AI Overclocking is an intelligent utility that helps you get the most out of your build by automatically profiling your CPU and cooling system to predict optimal voltage and frequency settings. The software then uses these settings to automatically guide the clocking process, balancing frequency and voltage.

AI Overclocking is faster and more efficient than other methods, and it allows users to overclock a system in just a few short steps from the UEFI or desktop. The company聮s proprietary algorithm rates the CPU overclocking potential and the cooling capabilities of a PC before producing a score.

In short, no. The majority of CPUs and motherboards聮 multipliers are locked and therefore unable to support overclocking. If you聮re interested in overclocking, you聮ll need to make sure you have the right type of CPU: Intel CPUs 聳 look for products with a 聭k聮 in the name.

How to Overclock With ASUS UEFI BIOS After entering the BIOS, the basic mode splash screen will appear. Once into the advanced section of the BIOS, all the overclocking related settings can be found in the AI Tweaker section. All the the voltage options further down.

ASUS Optimal: It 聭overclocks聮 your whole system and offers more stability if you try to overclock your CPU , so more stability in general. It is more power consuming .

Boot up and go into the bios (Hit F2 before windows starts loading). Then once in the bios hit F5 to load defaults. That should revert back to your unoverclocked settings.

Overclocking and tweaking by BIOS Enable and start at 4200 MHz (42 Multiplier) Apply 1.40V to the CPU (or simply leave it at auto) Work your way upwards from there until the system becomes unstable and then back down at least 100 MHz.

Glad you figured it out. Yes you need to save the default [F5] setting, either by using F10 keyboard shortcut, or click Exit and Save Changes setting in the UEFI. Your system is no longer OCed and any changes in the CPU frequency is due to Intel speed boost etc. as is adjusts the CPU speed depending on load.

How to Install ASUS GPU Tweak II on Your Windows 10 PC Go to the GPU Tweak II download page and select the red Download ASUS GPU Tweak II Now button. In the Driver & Utility Tab, select your PC operating system, and hit Download. After downloading, open the ZIP file and run the setup.

The easiest way to use AI Overclocking is through the UEFI, which doesn聮t require installing any software. There聮s even a guide embedded in the BIOS that outlines the process. To see it, enter the UEFI by pressing the Delete key when the system first boots, and then click AI OC Guide at the top of the screen.

MSI Afterburner is the last utility we are going to look at in our round-up. Developed with MSI video cards in mind, the utility will work for all other brands of video cards as well. Like the ASUS GPU Tweak utility, that means MSI Afterburner will work with both NVIDIA and AMD based graphics cards.

Overclocking is often thought of in the context of a CPU or GPU, but you can also overclock RAM (random access memory) to achieve faster speeds. The speed of RAM, measured in MHz, refers to its data transfer rate. The faster the data transfer rate, the better the RAM聮s performance.

Is overclocking safe? Overclocking is far less dangerous to the health of your components than it used to be 聳 with fail-safes built into modern silicon 聳 but you will still be running your hardware outside its officially rated parameters. That聮s why, historically, overclocking is done on ageing components.

Overclocking is much easier than it was 10 years ago, but it still requires a bit of finesse, and comes with some risk: if you push your CPU too far, you could degrade its lifespan or even irreparably damage it.

From the System Utilities screen, select System Configuration > BIOS/Platform Configuration (RBSU) > System Options > Processor Options > Processor Core Disable and press Enter. Enter the number of cores to enable per processor socket and press Enter. If you enter an incorrect value, all cores are enabled.

In the Asus Extreme Tweaker menu, we switch the Ai Overclock Tuner from Auto to Manual, which allows access to the base clock frequency setting. You can now type a value into the BCLK Frequency field. Hold fire for now, though. Below, you聮ll see CPU Core Ratio, which allows us to adjust the multiplier.

3200MHz RAM can be overclocked to 3600MHz. Before overclocking 3200MHZ of RAM, check the current RAM speed and find the best frequency for your type of RAM. Some RAM can聮t be overclocked and some motherboards are incapable of overclocking.

XMP, eXtreme Memory Profile, isn聮t exactly overclock. It is simply a setting made by the manufactures. These setting are well within safe zone and should be enabled. As for overclocking, it is generally safe as long as you don聮t have to increase the power by too much.