Thursday, December 17th 2009
EVGA Introduces EVBot Overclocking Tool
The EVGA EVBot is a useful tool for tweakers and overclockers to maximize their system and have fun tweaking their EVGA products. With the ability to adjust on the fly voltages, clock frequencies and much more, the EVGA EVBot unleashes the full potential of your select EVGA motherboards or graphics cards! Optimistic Booster allows EVBot to take over and increase CPU frequency for a short amount of time. (ex. up 4MHz ever 4 seconds, down 3MHz every 3 seconds) This allows you to obtain the highest performance possible for a benchmark run. Simple and straight forward to use, and best of all, no drivers needed! Just plug and play.
Features:
- On the fly voltage adjustment
- On the fly clock frequency adjustment
- No software required, no CPU overhead
- Opt Booster max's out your CPU for extreme benchmarks
- Supports select EVGA motherboards and graphics cards
- Connect up to 4 individual EVGA products
- EVGA X58 Classified 4-Way Motherboard
- EVGA X58 Classified Motherboard
- EVGA P55 Classified Motherboard
- EVGA P55 FTW 200 Motherboard
- EVGA P55 FTW Motherboard
- EVGA GTX 285 Classified Graphics Card
- Voltages:
o CPU VCore
o CPU VTT
o CPU PLL VCore
o IOH PLL VCore
o QPI PLL VCore
o DIMM Voltage
o IOH VCore
o IOH/ICH I/O
o ICH VCore - Clocks:
o CPU Host Frequency
o PCIE Frequency
o CPU Clock Skew
o CPU Amplitude - Hardware Monitor:
o CPU Temp
o VREG Temp
o CPU VCore
o CPU Frequency - Opt Booster - 10 Levels
- Voltages:
o VCore
o VPLL
o VDD
o VDDQ
- For EVGA X58 Motherboards: P02
- For EVGA P55 Motherboards: P02
- For EVGA GTX 285 Classified: None needed this time
17 Comments on EVGA Introduces EVBot Overclocking Tool
This magical tool will let you OC from 3.000GHz to 3.004Ghz, then automatically take you down to 3.001Ghz, then up to 3.005Ghz, then 3.002Ghz, then 3.006GHz, then 3.003Ghz, then 3.000Ghz. (Up and down are off sync). Wow. That speed improvement is sometimes as high as 0.2%, and on average 0.1%. Benchmarks are going to rock. /s
Well, if my CPU can go faster, I want it to do THE MAX immediately, not slowly ramp up over a long time period. When you benchmark, you want the max-max right away not some slow rollercoaster ride designed for geriatrics.
I hope I misunderstood and it is more than just a marketing trick.
An "out of BIOS" voltage and frequency adjustment is good for on the fly settings. But can't software utilities do this also? This box seems redundant and yet another device and cables to make my untidy room even more untidy! ;)
*EDIT*
After reading other sites, it seems that the device is really a manual voltage and frequency tweaker. The feature I criticised earlier is the "optimistic booster" feature. It is something they added, but isnt the real reason for the device... manual thumb click tweaking. They chose a good name for the automatic boost feature; "optimistic". You are going to have to be really optimistic to think it is going to make your PC rock. :pimp:
The tool allows you to configure the clock speed(s) of the CPU in whatever increments you choose, so you can make it go up 2MHz every 5 seconds or make it decrease 10MHz every 3 seconds, etc etc.
their marketing people probably had no idea what it all meant, and made it confusing
what sucks is evga charges $18 shipping
no cpu overhead like what you get with in operating system overclocking software like setfsb, volttuner, eleet, afterburner, you name it. I used this thing last night and it straight up rocks. Just about everything I punched in was rock solid. I've been able to push well past my previous overclocks with a 920.
I had my reservations but now I'm an beliEver :rockout: