Tuesday, May 29th 2007
Asus OCgear at Computex
ATI and NVIDIA are both working on an external graphic solution for notebooks and ASUS has already shown working samples at CeBIT 2007. The company has taken the idea a step further and will be introducing an internal version dubbed "OCGear". It comes in combination with a GeForce 8600GT, which can be overclocked by turning the dial of the 5.25 inch unit. No word on how it interfaces with the graphic card or the rest of the PC.
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TweakTown
12 Comments on Asus OCgear at Computex
Turn the knob down in internet/work mode and crank it up in gaming mode! Sounds like a good idea, although I think there should will be a max/min that you can set yourself.
I would imagine that the software that is used with this would detemine the highest and lowest clocks that the card can handle.
Then based on that would set the tuner.
This is a good idea and will hopefully let noobie OCs learn somethings.
Plus it would look pretty kewl in a case :)
Imagine your little son, who touch everything, spinning the dial... Roast-CPU for table 4 please!! :nutkick:
i better idea would be for the cpu to have one so when you just downloading at nite for example you dont need to restart and lower your clocks in order to set you be to say 50percent! like cool and quiet but you tell it when that would be a trick
It should be quite easy for a mobo manuf to allow a hardware button connected to the mobo (reset switch :P ) to swap between some basic profiles - the catch being, can the OS handle multiplier/drastic FSB changes on the fly. (Ram timings and voltages would be hard, i beleive)