Overclocking

A quick spin with the same timings we used with the ASRock X870E Taichi OCF and the board seemed to get stuck during post. Raising the VDDQ and VDDIO voltages saw us get stable enough to run through AIDA64, although the board takes a while cycle through memory training and overzealous tweaking compared to the ASRock board, even oi the EFI was more appealing with the ASUS. Eventually we topped out at the same DDR5-7800 with our 32 GB Kingston Fury Renegade DDR5 6400 kit, just with a little more time needed to get there.

The Extreme tweaker section has most key options on a single page, splitting them up between CPU, memory and voltage settings with sub menus for PBO options, timings and VRM options, which is where you'll find loadline calibration for example. All PBO options are located in this section too, including Eco Mode, Curve Optimizer and Curve Shaper. These also appear under the Advanced menu in AMD Overclocking, which is perhaps a little less cluttered if you're just looking to tweak PBO settings. Otherwise, Extreme Tweaker has everything you need plus the usual overclocking options.