A second-tier motherboard company recently commented on a IT-related media that ASUS motherboards, based on Intel 925X and 915P chipsets, achieved superior results in 3D performance (we concluded that the performance of the ASUS motherboards must be a lot better than those offered by the second-tier company). The company also stated that, out of curiosity, they obtained an ASUs P5AD2 Premium. They discovered that the excellent 3D performance is the result of an all-new exclusive feature, PEG (PCI Express Graphics) Link Mode, which allows users to overclock GPU frequency and VGA memory from motherboard BIOS.
The second-tier company claimed that this mechanism is created solely to achieve higher benchmark results on 3D graphics and is misleading to the public.
After hearing the accusations, officials from ASUS said that they understand where the second-tier company is coming from. Since ASUS is the world’s number 1 motherboard company, it has a responsibility to help improve the entire motherboard industry. Hence, it released information on some of its confidential technology to educate other motherboard manufacturers, which have very limited research and development capability.
ASUS 915 and 925 motherboards included an exclusive feature called PEG Link Mode. This feature allows users to overclock GPU frequency and VGA memory speed through the motherboard the same way system bus and memory bus are tweaked. PEG Link Mode overclocks PCI-Express graphics cards from BIOS settings to enable powerful video performance on DX8 and DX9 applications. ASUS engineers carefully fine-tuned the parameters for every single PCI-Express card to provide system stability during high-speed graphics operation.
Under PEG Link, there are five settings for this unique function: Auto, Slow, Normal, Fast and Faster.
The default setting is Auto, which means the motherboard will automatically adjust for the right frequency according to system configuration. For advanced users who demand more precise overclocking, they can select the other four settings to achieve the most suitable graphics card performance.
The second-tier company claimed that this mechanism is created solely to achieve higher benchmark results on 3D graphics and is misleading to the public.
After hearing the accusations, officials from ASUS said that they understand where the second-tier company is coming from. Since ASUS is the world’s number 1 motherboard company, it has a responsibility to help improve the entire motherboard industry. Hence, it released information on some of its confidential technology to educate other motherboard manufacturers, which have very limited research and development capability.
ASUS 915 and 925 motherboards included an exclusive feature called PEG Link Mode. This feature allows users to overclock GPU frequency and VGA memory speed through the motherboard the same way system bus and memory bus are tweaked. PEG Link Mode overclocks PCI-Express graphics cards from BIOS settings to enable powerful video performance on DX8 and DX9 applications. ASUS engineers carefully fine-tuned the parameters for every single PCI-Express card to provide system stability during high-speed graphics operation.
Under PEG Link, there are five settings for this unique function: Auto, Slow, Normal, Fast and Faster.
The default setting is Auto, which means the motherboard will automatically adjust for the right frequency according to system configuration. For advanced users who demand more precise overclocking, they can select the other four settings to achieve the most suitable graphics card performance.
