OC3D Review: Asus ROG OC Station

[w3bbo]

Overclocking on the fly, no need for reboots, stylish dual bay design. Meet the Asus OC station. The ultimate in overclocking devices?

Read on to find out...

 

[BloomerzUK]

Nice review.. dunno if you spotted it or not, but on the 3rd page, 2nd last image.. they've spelled 'launch' wrong .

 

[w3bbo]

Yeah, some mistakes they and other mfr's make in the BIOS on mobo's are laughable too. Luckily the firmware can be updated so errors like this can be corrected.

 

[PeterStoba]

Nice review.. dunno if you spotted it or not, but on the 3rd page, 2nd last image.. they've spelled 'launch' wrong .

OMG ERROR!

Nice review as usual though Rich, it is a bit pricey though, £105 for something that can be done for free?

 

[zak4994]

More rather £105 for convenience.

 

[w3bbo]

You've hit the nail on the head there. It's a time saving device(no reboots), something that someone not confident in overclocking can use while following a guide maybe? Worth it to some I guess but the price needs looking at for it to be very popular.

 

[VonBlade]

I thought that the ROG stuff came with desktop OC software anyway? Or at minimum the OC Palm is hardly expensive at all and does the same thing.

So do I get a P6 OC Palm for 250, or a Rampage II + OC Station for 360??

 

[w3bbo]

If you deffo want an Asus board then go for the P6T imo. Only go for the deluxe if you want to make use of SAS. No need for the palm if you know what you're doing, nice gadget that it is.

 

[mayhem]

I wonder if they haven't inc the Memory over clocking as there is so many different types of memory they don't what you blowing it and then blaming them.

Its interesting to see this but if you are relay inept user would you buy this. It more of a bling thing like you say but realy most add on ocing apps are as the ground base bios over clocking really is the only option.

This what i more surprised at i have found with memory over clocking windows 7 is much less likely to die on boot than windows xp if its set up correctly. So 1 question is does this peace of equipment work with windows 7 and does it work well.

other wise nice looking and i personally don't think the price is that high considering what it looks like and its really not that bad looking.

 

[VonBlade]

So 1 question is does this peace of equipment work with windows 7 and does it work well.

You can also set the OC station to display your system configuration and as you can see below, the OC station is compatible with Windows 7 64bit using the provided driver.

So I'd take that as a yes

VB

 

[mayhem]

so i presuming you have full retail windows 7 .... before release date. 0_o

 

[Rastalovich]

He's quoting, but for the record, it is out *cough* there >.<

 

[w3bbo]

I am 'evaluating' W7 for MS, (build 7100). I have a legal key - nothing untoward to disclose I'm afraid. I think anyone can download W7 from MS now anyway not just subscribers.

For products like this, future compatability is an absolute must, so I thought it best to test on W7 64bit, even though the OC Station does not officially have a driver for it due to W7 not on official retail release yet but I encountered no issues while using it.

 

[mayhem]

that's good to know.

Cover all avenues esp with the release of the new of OS officially coming out soon ...

Still nice bit of kit bit with the money functions missing but that's no surprise what so ever. Id remove them my self to cover my own ass.

What would be good for the product is the release of the source code or the ability to make you own plug in's so that it can expand its uses even more.