Software

One of the most impressive things in our LGA 1155 socket testing was Asus’s software. They did a good job of packing almost everything into one simple and easy to use program called AI Suite II. With the X79 platform I was looking forward to that same software as well. At first when I booted it up I was a little concerned, although similar they had made a few changes to the GUI. In the end I had nothing to be worried about. Here is a video that shows off the entire software. In the video you will see all of the adjustability you have for overclocking in the TurboV EVO tab. On top of that you have control over the EPU, USB 3 boost, and your fans in the FAN Xpert+ tab. The last option gives you the ability to control fan ramp up among many other things. After your all done you can monitor and even record all of your temperatures, fan speeds, and voltages in the recorder.

USB 3.0 Boost itself is an impressive piece of the software, they have included an on board UASP USB3 controller that when used with a a UASP device gives you the best performance you can get out of USB. During their testing Asus was able to see file transfer times that were twice as fast as traditional USB 3.0. This technology also works with USB 2.0 devices. Its able to speed both USB 2.0 and 3.0 speeds up by allowing multiple commands at once unlike traditional USB communications. This allows it to take advantage of the full bandwidth that the bus allows.