Bundled Applications
Included Applications
- ASUS AI Suite 3
- ASUS Dual Intelligent Processors 5 with 5-Way Optimization
- TPU (Turbo Processing Unit)
- EPU (Energy Processing Unit)
- DIGI+ Power Control
- Fan XPert 3
- Turbo App
- USB 3.0 Boost
- AI Charger+
- USB Charger+
- Disk Unlocker
- USB BIOS Flashback Wizard
- ASUS Wi-Fi GO!
- Sonic Radar II
- ROG GameFirst III
- ROG KeyBot
- ROG RAMDisk
- ROG CPU-Z
- ROG Mem TweakIt
- DAEMON Tools Pro Standard
- ASUS WebStorage
- Norton Internet Security
AI Suite 3
The AI Suite 3 application is a bundling mechanism for all the included ASUS designed utilities, providing a centralized panel from which to access and run the applets. The other applets can be accessed by clicking on the tile icon in the upper right corner of the window. The AI Charger+ and USB Charger+ applets configure the USB port for optimized fast-charging of Apple-specific or generic USB-based devices. The USB 3.0 Boost applet supercharges your USB 3.0 ports, allowing for enhanced read and write performance with the amount of performance gain based on the USB 3.0 device in use. The USB BIOS Flashback Wizard creates a BIOS file that can be used in conjunction with the BIOS Flashback functionality built into the board to re-flash the BIOS without the need for booting. This is functionality that I wish more motherboard vendors would embrace because it is easier than you think to corrupt a BIOS. Normally, the board is toast if you cannot boot into the BIOS or reset it successfully. This BIOS Flashback function gives you another option and has saved my bacon in at least one instance in the recent past.
The main app opens to the Dual Intelligent Processors 5 page, organized into separate sections for each of the five 5-Way Optimization features. The overclocking settings are housed in the TPU section. The EPU section houses power saving related settings. The DIGI+ Power Control section houses settings specific to the board power circuitry, and the Fan Xpert3 section contains fan controls. The Turbo App section houses application specific performance, network priority, and audio settings. Along the bottom of the app are real-time monitoring display settings.
5-Way Optimizations page
5-Way Optimizations page, Advanced settings
5-Way Optimization Wizard in progress
5-Way Optimization Report, TPU and EPU sections
5-Way Optimization Report, Fan section
5-Way Optimization Report, Fan and VGA sections
TPU, CPU Frequency settings page
TPU, CPU Strap settings page
TPU, Graphics Cards settings page
TPU, Graphics Cards settings, Tuning Wizard in progress
TPU, Graphics Cards settings, Tuning Report
Fan Xpert3 page
Fan Xpert3, Fan details page
Fan Xpert3 page, Fan location select popup
Fan Xpert3 page, Fan Auto Tuning Wizard in progress
Fan Xpert3 page, Fan Auto Tuning report
DIGI+ Power Control, CPU settings page
DIGI+ Power Control, DRAM settings page
Turbo App page
Turbo App, Application details page
EPU page
You appear to have “Courtesy
You appear to have “Courtesy of Gigabyte” dotted around on this article; perhaps you mean “Courtesy of Asus”
You know its Morry that has
You know its Morry that has written this right? We all love him and his work, but he is quite like that grandparent we all have that sometimes puts their shoe in the oven and the milk in the washer.
Thanks for the heads up, its
Thanks for the heads up, its fixed now…
Morry! You magnificent
Morry! You magnificent bastard, I read your article! ~ Derivative quote taken from “Patton” starring Geo. C Scott. 😉
Looks like a good board.
Looks like a good board. Especially now that EK posted a picture of a full coverage monoblock for the Rampage V. Might look into it for an upgrade from an X79 Sabertooth.
Anyone by any chance have an idea why the 2nd card in a crossfire setup would stop being detected in windows after installing Gskill 3333MHz ram?
it *might* be a PCIe voltage
it *might* be a PCIe voltage issue. Try bumping up your chipset related voltages a bit and see if that helps. What speed are you attempting to run the memory at? Could also be that that board cannot maintain stability at spec'd memory speeds with the new DIMMs
It was a client’s PC so I
It was a client’s PC so I don’t have it available anymore. The ram in question had an XMP profile of 3333MHz 1.35V CL16-16-16-36. Wouldn’t always boot at 3333MHz. 3200MHz would work so it was set to that. But I hadn’t thought to check the PCI-E voltage. If I come across the board again I’ll definitely look into that.
The guy was dead set on returning the PC anyways and brought it to me to see if I could get it going. I think the board was just set on making a fool of me.
Better that board than any of
Better that board than any of us! 🙂
Weird, you list “weakness” as
Weird, you list “weakness” as lacking a clear CMOS jumper, but it has a clear CMOS button on the back panel. See your own photo:
https://pcper.com/image/view/51285?return=node%2F62100
Lower left corner just above the ROG connect/USB BIOS Flashback button. It is labeled CLR CMOS
clear CMOS button and clear
clear CMOS button and clear CMOS jumper are different. Jumper can be used to clear all BIOS settings in conjuction with removing the CMOS battery reliably. CMOS button is not as reliable at doing this in practice. The jumper just gives a bit more control over the operation…
I have this board and the
I have this board and the clear CMOS button does exactly as the clear CMOS jumper does on all the other boards I own. It clears the CMOS and resets to default values.
A jumper is nothing more than two pins that when jumpered shorts a circuit, this is what clears the CMOS, it shorts the power to ground.
If you like you can put a DVM on it and test it yourself. They are indeed on in the same.
I have this board and the
I have this board and the clear CMOS button does exactly as the clear CMOS jumper does on all the other boards I own. It clears the CMOS and resets to default values.
A jumper is nothing more than two pins that when jumpered shorts a circuit, this is what clears the CMOS, it shorts the power to ground.
If you like you can put a DVM on it and test it yourself. They are indeed on in the same.
Noctua NH-D15 cooler seems to
Noctua NH-D15 cooler seems to be very close to the graphics card PCB. What non-conductive material would you use inbetween? Or, in your experience, does it even matter?
If you’re concerned when
If you're concerned when using a cooler like that, you could use one of the following (most of which I have used in my many liquid cooled and force-refrigeration-cooled systems):
– duct-tape
– neoprene pad (thin with adhesive on one side)
– conformal coating -> have to be careful with this, not to get any on conductive surfaces as it will insulate them very well
– backplate for the video card
Thank you so much for the
Thank you so much for the reply
I’ll definitely go with the Neoprene pad and GPU backplate solutions
I always wanted a 140mm kinda Noctua CPU cooler because I simply don’t trust even the 1 in a million chance that there’d be a leakage from CPU water cooling, and that that would be my CPU water cooler purchase
Will be this mobo compatible
Will be this mobo compatible with the next 2016-2017 HMC as replacement for DDR memories ? THKS
unknown, but unlikely based
unknown, but unlikely based on previous Intel release cycles…
I own this mobo an its been
I own this mobo an its been nothing but a nightmare for me. It resets on its own. Locks up. BSOD I have changed power supplies done everything I can think of best advise stay away.
please dont tell ppl to stay
please dont tell ppl to stay away from a board that i have and totally love, you just had a bad board which can happen with any board out there, so no dont stay away from thus board as a novice ocer this board is a beauty.