Monday, February 4th 2019
ASUS GPU Tweak II Smears Ads Over Your Games
ASUS GPU Tweak II is a utility the company bundles with its graphics cards, which lets you overclock and monitor them. Among its many monitoring featuresis performance overlay mode, that adds an overlay to fullscreen 3D apps (in other words, games), which can be set to display parameters such as GPU temperatures, clock-speeds, frame-rates, etc. GPU Tweak II user "PurpleSquash640" on Reddit posted a screenshot of an ASUS banner ad overlaying their Battlefield V fullscreen.
This somewhat square banner is positioned at the right-center corner of the screen, with a handy "turn off this picture press ctrl+alt+F" text. When GPU Tweak II is closed (background process killed), the overlay disappears. The banner itself markets the company's latest RTX 20-series graphics cards. "PurpleSquash640" captioned this banner "wtf?" in their screenshot, and we can't disagree with that sentiment. This is the first among many questionable GPDR-teasing practices by ASUS in recent times, including unsolicited injection of files to Windows System32 folder by its latest motherboards.
Update 05/02: We have been informed that the "ad" doesn't appear by default, and is just a placeholder image for a different feature altogether. Apparently you can configure the GPU Tweak II OSD to display images (such as your clan logo). The app has a bundled placeholder image that looks like an ASUS banner ad.
Source:
PurpleSquash640 (Reddit)
This somewhat square banner is positioned at the right-center corner of the screen, with a handy "turn off this picture press ctrl+alt+F" text. When GPU Tweak II is closed (background process killed), the overlay disappears. The banner itself markets the company's latest RTX 20-series graphics cards. "PurpleSquash640" captioned this banner "wtf?" in their screenshot, and we can't disagree with that sentiment. This is the first among many questionable GPDR-teasing practices by ASUS in recent times, including unsolicited injection of files to Windows System32 folder by its latest motherboards.
40 Comments on ASUS GPU Tweak II Smears Ads Over Your Games
1) I don't know who decided on the stock image, but it is just a static picture, not a live banner or real-time advert.
2) The overlay isn't active by default.
3) It can be replaced with a custom image, turned off, or repositioned.
techreport.com/review/34295/asus-prime-x299-deluxe-ii-motherboard-reviewed?fbclid=IwAR1E-vUxhAA9xyvkUawS-9WBPLWKeylb9XUZiGA3DnUIXMH6kslm_Y3svJc
I still kinda dont get how thats supposed to work. But it aint 12 phases for sure..
gigabyte still uses ancient VRM cooling. MSI was the first mobo manufacturer on the scene to use new chips for VRM and they run cool ever since 8700k launched. even there lower mid tier $120 budget mobos had colder VRM's than Gigabytes $300 tier at the same time. I had 0 issues with my MSI gear.
MSI is also well respecting in the high end laptop arena in the last two years. they are not the old MSI anymore, they got their crap together, very good company imo.
while msi is decent,they 're using the same power stages on their enthusiast pro carbon/edge boards that gigabyte uses on much cheaper,low-end gaming x.
their meg ace board doesn't really deliver better power than gigabyte's aorus elite,at almost twice the price.
Asrock's z370 boards had the best value offerings with k6/extreme 4 using good,high-end vrm on a moderately priced board,but with z390 they really priced the phantom 6/extreme 4 too high for what they offer (they now cost as much as z370 taichi series did) while gigabyte brought excellent value with their gaming x/sli boards.I really see nothing in extreme 4 that would justify carrying a pretty big price premium over gigabyte's gaming sli board.
www.overclock.net/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=250662&d=1548963030
...and for staff here... why is the article still up with a title that is borderline libel?