New third-party OC panel permits on-the-fly tweaking, monitoring and diagnostics for OC-capable Asus ROG motherboards

Taiwan-based Elmor Labs made an unofficial successor for the Asus ROG Overclocking Panel, giving extreme overclockers an updated and cleaner easier-to-access panel in a single system. This OC panel permits main controls and certain tweaks corresponding to adjusting voltage, monitoring temperatures, and simple accessibility to vitality, drive reset, booting to safe mode, and completely different decisions corresponding to Gradual Mode. It’s a helpful little gadget to do BIOS diploma tweaks on the fly. This efficiently continues Asus’ legacy, as a result of it seems to have discontinued its private OC Panel that linked to its in-house OC header — a header that’s nonetheless provided on certain extreme overclocking specialist motherboards.

Origins of the Asus OC Panel

Asus had its ROG OC panel for motherboards similar to the Intel X99-based Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme, Intel Z87-based Maximus VI Impression/ Hero/ Gene, Intel X79-based Rampage IV Black Model and the Z97-based Maximus VII Ranger/ Impract/ Hero/ Gene/ Elements range of motherboards. The ultimate firmware exchange for the ROG OC panel was in June 2016. This used Asus ROG’s in-house developed OC header, which gave this method the ability to look at and tweak minor changes on the fly. It moreover included a 5.25″ bay present.

It grew to turn out to be outdated as 5.25″ bays usually are not obtainable on most fashionable situations. Asus nonetheless provides the similar header on extreme overclocking specialist ROG motherboards, nonetheless the ROG OC panel hasn’t seen further updates and there is no newer mannequin for extreme overclocking followers. Granted, this represents a micro-niche with a handful of veterans globally whose contributions are recurrently utilized for motherboard and graphics card enchancment.

Nonetheless, Elmor Labs has stepped in to fill the outlet with this all-in-one system for tweaking, controlling, and real-time monitoring capabilities using the Asus header.

ASUS ROG Z790 Maximus Apex Encore is one present motherboard with an OCP header that was used to showcase the function of this product all through its prototype stage. Elmor Labs used their OC panel prototype to tweak their overclocks on the fly whereas balancing liquid nitrogen stream with a view to not set off the infamous Intel’s ‘Chilly Boot’ bug. It recorded a CPU-Z validation using the Intel Core-i9 14900KF overclocked to 9.043 GHz in October.

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Fast forward to December, and we now have a retail product. There usually are not any ROG aesthetics, but it surely has the entire capabilities, headers, and diagnostics followers may have in such a device. Whereas this gadget won’t make you an skilled overclocker on the drop of a fan, it’s a useful system for very good tweaking and real-time monitoring.

Elmor Labs has made many specialist merchandise for the DIY extreme overclocking fanatic home, nonetheless this gadget picks up the place Asus left off. The pricing of the Elmor Labs OC Panel is however to be disclosed on the time of writing.

In any case, credit score rating partially goes to the Asus ROG workers as this gadget wouldn’t have been potential had the OCP header been discontinued inside the post-Z97 chipset days. It may very well be even larger if an open-source commonplace is likely to be developed and updated that involved additional producers, overclockers, and followers, nonetheless you already know what they’re saying about necessities.