If you thought
MSI's obsession with motherboard implants was over after it unveiled
Winki to a nearly nonexistent amount of fanfare, think again. The company has just taken the wraps off its latest mobo addition, the OC Genie. In essence, this is the one-touch overclock button that laptop owners have long enjoyed, but for desktops. Right now, the OC Genie is custom built for the company's own P55 motherboard, though it insists that all sorts of mainboards will be supported in due time. If you're curious about the details, you'll have to remain that way for now; all we're told is that activating the module automatically pushes your system to a safe brink within a second, giving even the newbies in attendance the ability to squeeze more from their current rig. In related news, MSI also added yet another model to its growing
Classic laptop series, the
17.3-inch CX700, which gets powered by a Core 2 Duo processor, ATI's Mobility Radeon HD4330 GPU and 4GB of RAM.
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posted Jul 19th 2009 8:34AM
i would love to have one of those on my Asus...
Don't newer ASUS motherboards already come with built-in automatic overclocking in the BIOS? Also, eVGA has that too, I think...
I don't see this as something totally new, and anyone who truly wants to overclock probably wants to take it into their own hands on a custom built desktop rig.
Not to mention the actual amount of overclocking that these auto-OC solutions provide is minimal at best... That translates to only a small performance gain.
I know my old ASUS board had a program that you could overclock with from the desktop, but it only went up to 110% or something low. My current ASUS board also has a program for overclocking in it, but I haven't really fooled around with it yet as there is no need for me to overclock.
The ASUS Turbo Button or whatever its called is pretty weak. ans software OCing is just lame to begin with. straight from the BIOS is the only way to go
@kojo +10
as much "fun" as OCing can be for some, for me...its just a PITA. rather than spending 20-30 minutes (sometimes even an hour) getting all the right settings down in bios to get a rock solid and stable OC, it would be awful nice to just hit delete on startup, get into BIOS, enable a feature and have the computer automatically OC itself within a couple minutes. considering that i wont start shopping for my next processor/mobo for another year or so, hopefully this'll be implemented in most mobos by then. cant wait for usb 3.0, intel sub 65w processor, gpu processing in my next build
are there any benchmarks on these kind of things? how they compare to skilled ordinary overclocking?
It's like an "Easy button" for a desktop. Win.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYD8rswgvOg
safe sex safe overclocking FTW!
That seems pretty sweet
I was at the finals of MSI's EU overclocking contest (MOA) this weekend and they did a live demo of OC Genie. Within a second they overclocked on 2.93GHz Lynnfield CPU to 4GHz+ running on air. The OC Genie chip on the P55 mainboard seems to be directly tuning the mainboard clock generator. Pretty interesting technology.
Did they show how many cores were running?
I only ask because the 2.93Ghz Lynnfield(870) turboboosts one core to 3.6Ghz stock.
So it's button that can instantly void your warranty?
Or does it not really -push- the system?
The turbo button is back!
Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica would be proud.
Came here looking for this. Left satisfied.
that one evil villain from batman forever would be happy. what was his name? kane?
You stole my thunder... I voted you up anyways.
my evga x58 has a feature like this called Dummy OC
So it's like the Turbo Button on the old x86 chips?
Yes, except that having the turbo button 'enabled' actually slows down your PC since it's designed for playing old games (even older than the computers that actually feature turbo buttons).
my msi x58 board has a similar feature already. there are 3 dip switches on the mobo by the power/reset button that control the base clock frequency. change the switch settings and viola, youre overclocking.
though a simple button would be better than some switches....
That's not the same thing at all, Dingus.
This apparently tunes the overclocking settings to suit what your specific system (RAM, CPU, etc) can handle. The switched of which you speak just increase overclocking parameters without any knowledge that your CPU can handle it.
Dingus is a funny word....and fun to say! Give it a try...
What laptops have something like this? Am I missing something?
http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/17/msis-turbo-drive-equipped-gx723-gaming-laptop-unveiled/
For instance...
If overclocking is that easy and safe, why not just make default clock speeds faster?
for the same reason we didnt make 10 louder, SO WE COULD CRANK IT TO 11!!!
When your working at the nanometer level, every cpu is different. At the stock speed, the cpu is guaranteed to be 100% stable 100% of the time, unless your unlucky enough to get a defective one. Once you get above the stock speed, the slight changes mean not every cpu is the same and may not run at the OCed speed.
@freakdiablo
But MSI is making the claim that this is perfectly safe. So, again, why is it not always on?
@Grammar Police...
I don't think you understand...this button also tests stability...if you are lucky enough to get a good OCing CPU, then this button will overclock it to a level that is SAFE FOR THAT PARTICULAR CPU....but pop in a different CPU, and the 'safe' overclock, may be much different. This isn't just a "increase FSB and voltage by x%" like the old 'turbo' mode...
So I have to disconnect my PC and open up the case every time I want to disable or enable overclocking?
The genie doesn't 'enable' or 'disable' overclocking...you can still overclock with the usual settings from the BIOS or some crappy windows software if you want, this just does all the adjustments for you with one button and attempts to find a safe, high overclock for your CPU.
DINGUS
Does my Thinkpad T400 have an overclocking feature? T9600 processor? I need more power, and this laptop runs way too cool.
"this laptop runs way too cool."
words i never though id hear.
When I'm rendering video, and I've got both cores pegged for 15 minutes, I feel a warm puff of air gently blowing out of the vents.
but can it go over 9000?
Dear god no. Any software/auto/easy overclocking "feature" is worthless. To the idiots thinking it can stress test and overclock a machine for a particular setup in under a minute or w/e, bull . Any person who knows anything about overclocking will tell you 8 hours stress test is the bare minimum you should do if you want stability.
How on earth would it determine the correct voltage instantly? Normally you slowly increase voltage until it's stable under an 8-24 hour test. If you do this right you will often get lower temps and higher performance than the [auto] settings.
Overclocking my i7 920 to 3.33ghz/3.5ghz w/turbo and actually reduced the temps by 2-3C load. It's not a big overclock ( it's going into a silent machine and any noise above 20db is unacceptable ) but it only takes a day. Once you overclock it properly you're done forever.
The actual process is pretty simple, the i7 requires like 3 voltages to be dialed in and the clock to be raised to 167 or w/e you want. Then you just have to wait for it to complete/fail tests and adjust settings. If you add the total time in the bios it's less than 20 minutes. You can watch TV or do work while it's chugging away.
TLDR: Man up and overclock it yourself, any auto overclocking program sucks.