VR Features

In the past few years, yours truly has observed that the overclocking community has become more knowledgeable about the impact of voltage settings on signalling and switching of semiconductor devices. Motherboard manufacturers are catching up upon this wave of knowledgeable enthusiast-users, and dropped conservative and limited options in the BIOS for comprehensive and extended ones. The race was pretty much started by DFI, and subsequently Gigabyte's first DQ6 motherboard. Today, outlandish options (I've yet to know of any subzero-cooling users venturing into 2.00V Vcore for benchmarking) lace highend offerings from mainboard makers, something overclockers embrace with glee.

The individual GTLref adjustment on the Striker II Extreme is a rather new feature, which I believe was first implemented on the tweaked-out and oversexed (if a little rare) Foxconn BlackOps. With so many options to explore, overclockers are spoilt for choice. Systematic patience would be the key to "maxxing" out the motherboard. We can only hope that phantom options don't pop up to spoil the show for Asus.