ASUS Station-ROG OC Controller !!!

ASUS has revealed that it will release hardware overclocking panel-OC Station - ROG OC Controller,which is corresponding to latest R.O.G series motherboard.

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It also support some parameter monitor, such as voltage,external frequency,temperature, frequency and so on.It adopts l3" TFT-LC panel,which provides all information and display user defined pictures. It can support pure hardware overclocking and ensures stability because of Hardware-based OC.While Movable Faceplate can tilt.

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Price please,also release date thanks.:up:

thats nice, looks like a good alternative to the NZXT Sentry.

This is for the ROG series only I suppose ?

How does it connect to the mobo? Also, what boards will support it?

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

This is for the ROG series only I suppose ?

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that would be my guess. i dont see what the appeal to this is really.. i guess just makes overclocking easier... i like the old fashioned way ;)

man that's ugly as :banana::banana::banana::banana:

Wow, that looks really cool! Is there a list of which mobo's are compatible with it?

a big oc knob!

are they serious?

Asus likes big knobs... hehehe.

Honestly though, i think this thing is gaudy and would only really appeal to noob overclockers...

are there any additional info or sources on this thing? i don't get how this thing works. do you turn the knob and it cranks up the fsb or something? and how does it connect to the mobo?

recently, i've been turned off by asus products, especially the RoG series.

That looks really pretty cool to be honest, be nice if it can be used for other motherboards.

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Originally Posted by Leeghoofd

This is for the ROG series only I suppose ?

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yeah it is
they showed me this unit recently
pretty impressive stuff

That thing would just look so out of place on my computer and secondly overclooking through bios is not really that bad is it to warrant some sort of strange 5.25 inch bay thing.

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Originally Posted by Russian

Asus likes big knobs... hehehe.

Honestly though, i think this thing is gaudy and would only really appeal to noob overclockers...

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Suprise, suprise.

Asus specializes in flashy over priced products aimed at "noob overclockers".

Now if they could only release a decent enough "bios" to allow the so called "ROG" line to "really" overclock.... I would have to assume that somewere near the lower end of the knob there is a BSOD setting.......

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Originally Posted by dinos22

yeah it is
they showed me this unit recently
pretty impressive stuff

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looks like a copy of the foxconn quantumforce OC panel...
they did a good job though, color lcd screen, complex plastic mold shape to make it look expensive, and apparently a detailled menu to adjust fanspeeds and voltages and clockspeeds.

color lcd screen - i think thats overspecced, why do you need this to adjust your system clocks and voltages
fanheaders on the actual unit - bad idea imo, it would be better if it can access the fanspeed controls of the mainboard, cause this is an external unit, so wiring fans from there to the system is kinda annoying

the bigest problem i see with this is intel locking all registers on i7 after bootup... so we cant change sht after the system booted... no mem timings or any other performance related settings. this means all youll be able to do with this is adjust the bclock, pciE clock (maybe) and voltages... for those things i think tweakit is more than enough...

in my opinion, if there is anything outside of the bios that sets overclocking settings it is bound to mess up. Software just isnt going to give the right translation to the bios and im sure there are times when all these soft overclocking methods just brick boards. I just do not like it at all. Now ASUS is coming out with a knob based device that helps you oc? why? all im trying to understand is why is this necessary on a board like the ROG boards that are designed for extreme overclocking and not knob-clocking.

Also, i believe Eleet is basically the program that allows you the most abilities when OCing in the OS and it aint much.

http://www.evga.com/eleet/images/eleet_overclocking.gif

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Originally Posted by saaya

a big oc knob!

are they serious?

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I turnz big oc knob n makez pc goez faster!!!

sorry, read too many lulz dis morning..

daym, nice avatar revenant... got any high res shots of that? :D

Yeah i wonder what will happen when you keep turning left and right quickly

the knob falls off? ^^

the system will probably freeze if you turn it too far to the right... or too far to the left too, cause the imc and chipset are adjusted during bootup... if you change the clockspeeds too much from what they were at bootup, youll freeze the system even if you reduce clocks.
on BloodRage i managed to boot with a bclock as low as 72mhz ^^ not stable though...

This is for people that put 22" Chrome rims on their Cadillacs: Useless, annoying and Says a lot about the person :p:

Perkam

What if my Asus board blows up using this tool ?
Can I still RMA my board or is this at own risk ?

if it works like shaminos foxconn quantumforce oc panel, then its useful as it allows on the fly access to clocks and voltages while the system is running a benchmark. so you can quickly reduce clocks a tad in some parts of a benchmark that is more demanding than others. this might give you maybe 50 or 100mhz higher cpu clocks on average... useful for benching, not really useful for 24/7...

If this thing works like the Tweak it function on the Rampage Extreme and makes use of the big LCD screen instead of the LCD poster i want to see how many people still think it's for n00bs. :rolleyes:

Tweakit is actually pretty sweet for making hardware OC adjustments (vcore, VTT, BCLK) on the fly without the need for a reboot, especially if you're benching. I'm not sure what this controller provides that tweakit doesn't. I guess it would be easier to use with a case, but who benches like that?

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Originally Posted by Aivas47a

Tweakit is actually pretty sweet for making hardware OC adjustments (vcore, VTT, BCLK) on the fly without the need for a reboot, especially if you're benching. I'm not sure what this controller provides that tweakit doesn't. I guess it would be easier to use with a case, but who benches like that?

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yeah, thats convenient... but you know whats even more convenient? having a software tool to adjust those voltages :P

besides adjusting stuff while your running the benchmark, i really dont see a point in tweakit and this external oc controller

Put an eight track slot in the front of it and it looks just like a Kraco under dash player I had in the '68 Shelby... if it had two knobs on the front it would look just like the Craig under dash 8-track player ... Round it off and we have a Weltron 2001 desktop 8-track.... :rofl:

Can you water cool it... :hrhr:

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Originally Posted by Xoulz

Can you water cool it... :hrhr:

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:rofl::ROTF:

Now THAT would be extreme.