

And one of the steps that you can take to safeguard your CPU is to invest in better cooling. So, before you jump head-first and put a massive overclock on the processor, make sure you know the risks and how to minimize them. In other words, by overclocking the CPU, you are assuming the risk of general system instability and even component death. Overclocking is the process by which you increase the CPU frequency beyond the standard, manufacturer-decided frequency. Let’s see how you can use Intel XTU to overclock your CPU and gain some free performance. Thankfully, tools like the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel XTU) make the process a lot easier. That said, manual overclocking is a mammoth task if you have never done it before. And one of the best tweaks that you can do is overclocking your CPU. These options are just the beginning for what will become an even more versatile tool.One of the perks of owning a PC is the ability to get more performance out of your hardware through a variety of tweaks.

Armoury Crate even lets you manually overclock ROG Strix GL12CX beyond the processor’s factory-overclocked speeds. You can easily change settings for both and define up to four game profiles that automatically make adjustments when you launch your favorite titles. ROG Armoury Crate puts all essential system and lighting control at your fingertips in a single utility. Unified System Tuning and Personalization

Not sure if your GL12CX came with the air-cooled or liquid-cooled cpu, but just a reminder that you will see some performance issues if there is overheating, so you also want to make sure you have adequate cooling. Otherwise, if you haven't looked through the Armoury Crate software in Windows as mentioned at our global website below, you may want to check that too and experiment with the 'manual' mode. Unfortunately, not able to check a GL12CX system right now if you want to check with more people or check back, but expect the bios to be more limited as you may have found already although you may want to check if there are any settings to help with this. Not sure if everyone at ASUS will agree with this or if it's correct, but guessing that it is assumed most customers who buy desktops complete like the GL12CX would not normally want to spend much time tinkering with the system and would prefer to just install and play games, so there are not as many features or options for customers to adjust compared to our motherboards sold separately.

Sam2299, thanks for the link and yes, it appears to only apply to our motherboards that are sold separately and not the motherboard inside the GL12CX.Īt the end of the article, there are some links for the related motherboards.
