Besides the above listed options for manual overclocking, the BIOS Setup of ASUS A8V-E Deluxe also offers two options for automatic overclocking. The first one is activated by selecting the AI Overclock profile, and allows raising the clock generator frequency by 3, 5, 8 or 10%.

The second technology called AI NOS (Non Delay Overclocking System) is a little bit more intelligent. It allows increasing the clock generator frequency by 3, 5, 8 or 10% only when necessary, i.e. when the CPU workload is really high. This way, AI NOS appears similar to MSI?s Dynamic Overclocking technology.

As for the memory controller settings, the situation here is really hopeless. First of all I have to point out that there are very few parameters the mainboard allows adjusting at all.

Among them are just the frequency and Tcl, Trcd, Tras and Trp timings. Unfortunately, a very important parameter, 1T/2T Memory Timings cannot be adjusted on ASUS A8V-E Deluxe. In fact, we have already seen mainboards that do not allow adjusting this very parameter, too, and it was not that crucial. But not in case of ASUS A8V-E Deluxe. The thing is that this mainboard always sets 1T/2T Memory Timings to 2T, which reduces the mainboard performance a way below what it should be.

This is not the only problem with the memory configuration. When we set Trcd and Trp parameters in the BIOS Setup to Auto, the board raises the values above those written in the memory modules SPD, which also doesn?t tell well on the performance.