ASUS ‘auto-tuning’ 3.66 GHz CPU and DDR-1536

This setup is the result of the ASUS auto-tuning feature. I have only included this page in the article for those who are curious with what the feature could achieve before messing with it. You basically turn it on in the BIOS and reboot. The documentation says it will cycle through some settings and reboot until it finds the overclocking limit for you. If you had any luck with this setting, let me know. As far as I am concerned, this was a disaster. Note that the computer never seemed to do any sort of tuning. I turned on the feature, rebooted, and Windows 7 loaded up. When I checked CPU-Z, I found the crazy settings below. Even if you could solve the cooling problem here (which was 100°C in 15 seconds on Prime95), you are still dealing with almost stock memory speeds and for some reason, horrible CPU performance. I ran the CPU benchmark 3 times on Sandra to verify it was not a fluke. Don’t even bother with this ‘feature.’

3.66 GHZ CPU

3.66 GHZ CPU

DDR 1535 9-9-9-24-1T

DDR 1535 9-9-9-24-1T

3.66 GHZ TEMPERATURES

3.66 GHZ TEMPERATURES

Hyper Threading ON
Prime95 Stable
Core Voltage 1.288 V
IMC/VTT Voltage 1.350 V
DRAM Voltage 1.350 V
Sandra Bandwidth 19.3 GB/s
Sandra CPU Math 60.00 GOPS