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
- Ai Charger+
- USB Charger+
- USB 3.0 Boost
- Disk Unlocker
- USB BIOS Flashback Wizard
- ASUS Wi-Fi GO!
- ASUS CPU-Z
- Turbo LAN
- DAEMON Tools Pro Standard
- ASUS WebStorage
- ASUS Home Cloud
- Google Chrome
- 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, TPU section
5-Way Optimizations page, TPU / EPU / Fan sections
5-Way Optimizations page, Graphic Cards section
5-Way Optimization Wizard, TPU Tuning start count down timer
5-Way Optimization Wizard, TPU Tuning in progress
5-Way Optimization Wizard, generic tuning 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
Fan Xpert3 page
Fan Xpert3, Fan details page
DIGI+ Power Control, CPU settings page
DIGI+ Power Control, DRAM settings page
Turbo App page
EPU page
Weakness:
No 3 way sli with
Weakness:
No 3 way sli with 28 lane cpu due to lack of x8x8x8 support
I’m like Allyn and wanted to
I’m like Allyn and wanted to upgrade from X58. I wanted to wait for the “second generation” X99 boards to come out to make sure to have a great implementation of this new chipset. Looks like I won’t even need to wait for the higher end deluxe/ROG family to come out, this one has pretty much everything I could want. I’ll need to check which waterblock I can fit there though to cool off the VRMs…
another con: On Asus
another con: On Asus boards(unlike Gigabyte) sata ports which can be used in RAID and which cannot aren’t clearly marked.
edit: Also port no 0,1 are separated from the rest which further leads to confusion. Asus should really change their naming scheme to clarify about which SATA Ports can be used in raid. (gigabyte uses SATA and sSATA to differentiate between two groups of ports).
Those are not cons.. sata
Those are not cons.. sata ports are clearly labeled and 3 way sli is silly.
why don’t you like sli
why don’t you like sli