2010 ASUS MB Seminar

ASUSTek COMPUTER
2010 May 27
MBPM Josh Wu | MKT Guillaume Henri

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 Agenda
• ASUS MB Design Philosophy
– Design for Performance
– Design for Free Upgrade
• Core Unlocker
• Turbo Unlocker
– Design for EZ O.C.
• Auto Tuning
• Turbo Key II
– Design for Aesthetics
• If you like to OC by yourself…
 ROG latest heavy weapon - Crosshair
IV Extreme!
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 ASUS MB Design
Philosophy
Design for Performance

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 Design for Performance (1/3)

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 Design for Performance (2/3)

AMD
mATX
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 Design for Performance (3/3)

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 Design Matters!!

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 Milestone of Tuning Features
2007 choose the 2008 more 2009 we provide 2009, it’s
CPU you want to OCoptions for this toy to let always not enough,
to… advanced users to you O.C. with so GPU O.C. is
real-time O.C. stability… ready for you…

ASUS is continuously leading in performance and power

efficiency innovation

Core TPU
TurboV Turbo Key Unlocker The greatest Turbo
Best OC Utility Best 1 touch OC Performanc
tool
Turbo Processing Unit
Unlocker e
Leading CPU
unlocking
Hybrid Phase innovation EPU
AI Gear
Software energy
Breakthrough power On demand energy-
performance management
Power
efficiency
saving efficient

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 2010, Dual Intelligent Processors

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 ASUS MB Design
Philosophy
Design for Free Upgrade

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 Core Unlocker (1/2)
Unlock the latent Core


Simply turn on the

onboard Core Unlocker
switch before powering on

AMD Phenom II X2
(unlocked)
AMD Phenom II X2

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 Core Unlocker (2/2)

 Able to auto detect / test

functional cores, and disable
faulty cores automatically.

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 Turbo Unlocker (1/5)
On-demand Real Time CPU performance boost
technology

- the boosted performance is

higher than AMD Turbo
CORE!
-

- the applicable CPUs are not

limited to 6-core*, but also
Phenom II Black
Edition(2/3/4 cores).

* AMD Turbo CORE technology now only available on 6 - core CPU

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 Turbo Unlocker (2/5)
On-Demand Real Time CPU Boost


•
nThere’re still many single
thread applications like
file compressing
transferring media decoding
that we can take advantage
of, even multi threaded AP
can easily see the boost
benefit
nTurbo Unlocker technology
stays within defined TDP &
electrical limits
n..

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 Turbo Unlocker (3/5)
Turbo Unlocker vs Turbo CORE
CPU Applicatio ASUS AMD
6-Core nSingle-thread Turbo
turbo Unlocker Turbo
turbo Core
6-Core Multi-thread
Highly
Single -thread turbo+ N
turbo
Black Multi-thread turbo+ turbo
Highly-thread turbo N
Edition
Phenom II Single-thread
Multi
highly -thread turbo N
Black
Edition

Our
Advantage !!

*Multi-thread: at least 2 cores active

Highly-thread: All cores active

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 Turbo Unlocker (4/5)
Performance Benchmark
　 Turbo Turbo Performance
Super pi ( 1M ) 22 .231
Unlocker 19 .937
Unlocker 10 . 32 %
Gain
Wprime
sec ( 32M ) 25 .02
Disable 21 .962
Enable 12 . 22 %
Cinebench
ses 6978 7801 11 . 79 %

Performance
Boost!
ystem Configuration:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X2 555 C3 Black Edition
DRAM: Gskill F3-18400CL8-2GBPIS x2@red slots
VGA: iGPU
VGA Driver Version: Support CD M1648
HDD: Seagate ST31000529AS@AHCI
O.S: Windows Win7 Ultimate 32bit

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 TurboUnlocker
Turbo Unlocker(5/5)
On demand real-time system tuning
How to activate?
Simply turn on the Turbo Unlocker function in the TurboV EVO
software,
then enjoy the extra
performance you get!

<a monitoring gadget shows

each core ratio dynamically
boosted>

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 ASUS MB Design
Philosophy
Design for Easy O.C.

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 Design for Easy O.C. (1/3)

SIMPLE AUTO STABLE

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 Design for Easy O.C. (2/3)
• Fast Mode – Upgrade the CPU in
seconds
• Extreme mode – enables auto
overclocking to an extreme yet
stable state

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 Design for Easy O.C. (3/3)

Only a


flip…

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 ASUS MB Design
Philosophy
Design for Aesthetics

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 We design, we make it happen!

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Crystal
Crystal

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 Crystal Clash Design
the idea comes from …

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 Crystal Clash Design
A red dot design award winner
A unique and efficient approach introduced to heat-sink design
By creating angled faces and cuts, ROG offers a high-end board with a style that reflects its
extreme performance.

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 Summary

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 If you like to OC by
yourself…
There are some new stuff for you:
-CROSSHAIR IV EXTREME
EU Technology Seminar

31/05/2010
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CROSSHAIR IV EXTREME
Layout at a glance

1 8 + 2 Phase
PWR with ML
Cap
2 AMD AM3 CPU

3 Extreme OC
Zone
4 AMD 890FX
Chipset
5 BIOS
Flashback
6 Lucid

7 ROG Connect /
RC
Bluetooth
8 Intel Gb LAN

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CROSSHAIR IV EXTREME

About Lucid…
With Lucid , Crosshair IV
Extreme gives you the
flexibility to support
multi GPUs from different
vendors and has
performance gain compared
to AMD native multi -
graphics solution !

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 CROSSHAIR IV EXTREME
About Lucid …
PCIe x16 lane allocation:
Slot Single SLI / CF SLI / CF 3 way Quad CFX
1 # VGA ( Native ) ( Lucid ) SLI
1 X16 X16 - X16 X16
2 2 - - X16 X16 X16
3 3 - X16 - - -
4 4 - - X16 X16 X8
5 5 - - - - X8

Ready for FOUR FAT •Recommend to use slot 2 and slot 4 when
graphic cards on running 2-way SLI/CF with Lucid!
board !
•It’s helpful to increase VGA-related
performance on 3DMark Vantage!

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 RC Bluetooth NEW

Smashes through all the barriers of conventional overclockin

Remote tweaking becomes effortless

Let RC Bluetooth bring you the whole new idea of how to overclock!

Try on - the - fly OC

on your Smart Phone *
now !!

*Please check ASUS website or manual for latest smart phone QVL.
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 Thank you

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Pendant que certains
parlent …
Recherche sur Internet

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Pendant que certains
parlent …
lTwitter: Plus de 50 Tweets par jour

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Pendant que certains
parlent …
lYoutube: Démonstration de l’ARES au
CeBIT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVzSRNiLVPI ASUS Confidential

Nous sommes ici pour vous présenter…

ARES : Du rêve à la réalité

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L ’ idée du nom vient de …
Le dieu Grec
de la GUERRE
“ARES était le grand dieu
olympique de la guerre, de
l'ordre civil et du courage
– il est représenté par un
guerrier barbu vêtu d’une
armure. ”
Dieu grec de la Dieu romain de la
guerre guerre
Carte graphique bi- Carte graphique
GPU AMD NVIDIA bi-GPU
Chacune de ces cartes sont
surpuissantes! ASUS Confidential
 Le logo:
lL’idée
“ Edition limitée. Puissance
infinie.”
 Même slogan que la MARS pour
montrer que l’ARES partage le même
état d’esprit que la MARS
lLes couleurs
Le rouge et noir prédominent pour
garder l’esprit des produits ROG.

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 Le design de la carte
L’extérieur, Le
commencement
lHommage à une des premières carte
bi-GPU d’ASUS

Le
dissipateur
s’inspire de
l’ASUS
EN7800GT
Dual/2DHTV/512
M

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 Air flow is 600%+ than reference with Lower Noi

Le design de la carte
Un flux d’air 600% supérieur
lInspiration de
l’ASUS
EN7800GT Dual


Un ventilateur
Structure of EN7800GT Dual
central pour un
gain deFlux600% avec
d’Air Bruit (dB)*
(CFM)
un minimum
ARES 119.21
de
37
bruitHD 18
Reference 44.5
5970

Structure of ARES
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 Le design de la carte
La naissance, le rêve prend
forme
lParti de l’EN7800GT
Dual, pour arriver au
design de l’ARES

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Egalement pour la
performance…

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Point clé pour la victoire

BI
Radeon 4096 Mo GDDR5
HD 5870

600% ARES Roi de la performance

d’air en plus Edition Limitée

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Roi de la performance
34 %
Boost
15437

11506

8111

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600% de flux d’air en plus en
toute discrétion
AirFlow Bruit

600 % Bruyan
Generic Radeon
HD5970: 44.5dB
t
119.21
CFM A peine ARES : 37dB
Generic ASUSARES audible
18HD
Radeon CFM
5970
Silencie
ux

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 Performanc Quantité de BI – GPU
e mémoire

X15437 4096Mo HD 5870 X 2

Radeon HD X11506 2048Mo HD 5850 X 2

5970

Radeon HD X8111 1024Mo X

5870

Radeon HD X6537 1024Mo X

5850

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 ARES
Radeon HD 5870X2
Video Memory 4G GDDR5
Engine Clock 850MHz
3200 Stream Processors (1600
units X2)
Memory Clock 4.8GHz
600% Airflow fansink design

Unité de Mémoire Bus mémoire Fréquence Fréquence

traitement GPU Mémoire
Radeon HD5850 1440 1Go GDDR5 256 bit 725 4.0GHz

Radeon HD5870 1600 1Go GDDR5 256 bit 850 4.8GHz

Radeon HD5970 2880 (1440 x 2) 2Go GDDR5 256bit X 725 4.0GHz

2
ASUS ARES 3200 (1600 x 2) 4Go GDDR5 256 bit 850 4,8GHz
X2

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SOON …

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 4 Way SLI on
ROG RAMPAGE III EXTREME

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 ROG Xpander
R3E ’ s solution to support GTX480 @ 4 Way SLI

NF200
chip

MUST for 4 - way SLI due to NVIDIA ’ s limitation

r featuring 2 * NF200 and 4 * PCIe x16 slots gives the capacity of running

* The photo above are for reference only , the actual product may slightly differ . ROG Xpander
** ASUS will
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 Installation
How does the added ROG Xpander connect to your R3E?

Just install the ROG Xpander to the

1st and 3rd PCIe x16 slot of the
motherboard

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If the NF200 chips are a
MUST ,
why not on R3E?

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 NF200 causes performance
Can NF200 helpdrop
boost GPU performance?
X58 3 - Way SLI vs . X58 + NF200 3 - Way SLI
X16 + X8 + X8 vs . X16 + X16 + X16
3.07GHz Core™ i7, 3GB DDR3-1600, 3* GTX 480, Rampage III Extreme w/ and w/o NF200

NF200 decreases the graphics performance by ~ 1 . 48 %

X16 + X16 + X16 is NOT faster than X16 + X8 + X8 if you ’ re with NF200

3DMark 3DMark GPU CPU

Vantage Score Score Score
(A) X58 26724 26440 28458
(B) X58+NF200 26387 26054 28446
(B) – (A) -338 -386 -12
% -1.28% -1.48% -0.04%

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 Two NF200 are for 4 - Way SLI
It ’ s an option for you to have it or not

4 - Way SLI is not for everyone

lTwo NF200 required for a 4 way SLI*, but only less than 1% users run it.

NF200 are for EXTREME Overclockers

lNF200 is used to provide X58 with enough additional lanes to support 3~4
graphics cards with full X16 pathways
lExtra $$$ , extra HEAT and extra POWER ( 12W ) come along with two
NF200, noting which might be interesting to you if you don’t need 4-Way SLI*.

It ’ s YOU who decides where your

$$$ goes ,
not your motherboard makers .

E can support 3-Way SLI without a NF200

o PSU are also required for 4*GTX480 in a 4-Way SLI configuration .
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4 - Way SLI on R3E
Not a must but an option

Solution for those who has the de

ROG Xpander comes with 2* NF200
offering the capacity of 4 Way SLI


NF200
chips

R3E running four GTX480 in 4 - Way

SLI
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 Summary
ROG Xpander - Not a must but an option

R3E can run 4 - Way SLI with ROG

Xpander
ROG Xpander featuring 2*NF200 is an option
for those who has the desire for 4-Way SLI

Why no NF200 on R3E?

•2*NF200 are a must for 4-way SLI
•NF200 decreases graphics performance by
1~2%
•Quad X8 can surpass quad X16 if the design
is right
•Extra $$$, extra heat and extra power
generated by NF200, ROG Xpander offers the
option for those who run 4-Way SLI

*The photo above are for reference only, the actual product may slightly differ.
** ROG Xpander will be purchased separately.
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 Thank you

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 Back up

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 Turbo Unlocker vs. Turbo CORE
Even in 6-core CPU, ASUS Turbo Unlocker boost performance still outperforms
AMD Turbo CORE around 8% in Sandra test

10%

8%

6%
Turbo Unlocker
4%
Per formance Gain!!
2%

0%
Cinebench R10 Wprime (32M) Sandra: Sandra: Sandra:
(x CPU) ses Aggregate Dhrystone ALU Whetstone
Arithmetic iSSE3
Performance

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 Turbo Core Applicable Models
Chipset Model BIOS Version TurboV EVO version
890GX M4A89GTD Pro/USB3 1208 and later TurboV EVO V1.02.20
M4A89GTD Pro 1208 and later TurboV EVO V1.02.20
890FX Crosshair IV Formula Default support when shipping
M4A89TD Pro/USB3
M4A89TD Pro
880G M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3
M4A88TD-V EVO
M4A88TD-M EVO/USB3
M4A88TD-M/USB3
M4A88TD-M
870 M4A87TD EVO
M4A87TD/USB3
M4A87TD

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 Turbo Core CPU Support List
CPU OPN Tray Model Frequenc Max Power Number of
Number y ( MHz ) (W) Cores
Phenom ™ II X6 HDT90ZFBK6DGR 1090z 3200 125W 6
Phenom ™ II X6 HDT55TFBK6DGR 1055T 2800 125W 6
Phenom ™ II X6 HDT55TWFK6DGR 1055T 2800 95W 6
Phenom ™ II X6 HDT35TWFK6DGR 1035T 2600 95W 6
Phenom ™ II X4 HDZ965FBK4DGI z965 3400 140W 4
Phenom ™ II X4 HDZ965FBK4DGM z965 3400 125W 4
Phenom ™ II X4 HDZ955FBK4DGI z955 3200 125W 4
Phenom ™ II X4 HDZ955FBK4DGM z955 3200 125W 4
Phenom ™ II X3 HDZ740WFK3DGI z740 3000 95W 3
Phenom ™ II X3 HDZ720WFK3DGI z720 2800 95W 3
Phenom ™ II X2 HDZ555WFK2DGM z555 3200 80W 2
Phenom ™ II X2 HDZ550WFK2DGI z550 3100 80W 2

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ROG Connect
Plug and Overclock - Tweak it the hardcore way !
 External hardware-based support, less resource occupied.
Easy and direct OC control at a pure hardware level
( iROG ) .
ROG Connect
ON/OFF switch

BIOS Flashback
POST code ing
Overclock
OC Profile TweakIt Remote co
ntrol

 Link the notebook and PC via USB

 Performance adjustments on big
screen
 Real-time system info display

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ROG Connect
Plug and Overclock - Tweak it the hardcore way !
Enable you to link a notebook or netbook to the motherboard’s
embedded iROG, allowing you to tune the main system at a purely
hardware level in real-time.

Hardware - based support allows you

to
OC on the fly

OC tweaking at notebook Let your PC focus on its job

seeking for the extreme!

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ROG Connect
Plug and Overclock - Tweak it the hardcore way
N E W!

Real-time monitoring and system

status recording help quick
diagnostics
New advanced functions:

BIOS switch or update Status check during Remote control

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 USB BIOS Flashback NEW
Refresh the BIOS can never be that easy!

A dummy-proof BIOS update tool:

No CPU, no VGA card , or Memory is
required,
no even need to enter BIOS,
All you need is just a * USB flash drive

*The USB flash drive should include a BIOS file (*.ROM ) ASUS Confidential
The More , The Better?
Perfect PCIe x16 slots layout arrangement
Four PCIe x16 slots with 2-slot
clearance fit all decent VGA cards
and ensures perfect airflow.

R3E running four ATI 5870 in quad ASUS Confidential