ASUS OC Palm Device
In the OC Palm versions of the ASUS P6T Deluxe you will find the little device below included in the box. It connects to your PC via USB and comes with a piece of software that that will allow you to operate it within Windows.
What is essentially a small display with several buttons on it, the OC Palm allows you to interact and monitor the motherboard outside of the OS. You use the arrow buttons on the left to navigate and change options then use the return and enter buttons to activate the options. There are three applications included on the device by default starting with TurboV overclocking.
There is also a hardware monitoring application…
And support for Yahoo! Widgets that will allow you to get all kind of information on the OC Palm.
Inside the hardware monitor you can watch voltages, temperatures and fan speeds. Basically anything you see and monitor in the BIOS you can do via the OC Palm.
Here you can see the CPU and MB temperatures being shown…
Fan speeds as well…
And voltages…
When you enter the overclocking application you can choose from only four different items to adjust including the base clock, CPU voltage, DRAM voltage and QPI voltage.
To adjust a setting, like the BCLK here, you simply use the up and down arrows and then hit the enter button when it asks you if you are really, really sure you want to apply the changes. You CAN blue screen your system by pushing things a little too far while in Windows – this happened to me once while experimenting with the OC Palm.
Depending on your view of the OC palm, this might be just a neat gadget to play with a couple of times or it could be a useful tool if used correctly. If devices like this became widespread I would be excited about the kind of applications that could spawn from the enthusiast community to take advantage of it.
Depending on your view of the OC palm, this might be just a neat gadget to play with a couple of times or it could be a useful tool if used correctly. If devices like this became widespread I would be excited about the kind of applications that could spawn from the enthusiast community to take advantage of it.
