Intel Core i7 and ASUS motherboard

Hey. Running an Intel Core i7 on an ASUS motherboard with everything at stock settings. This board has this "Red Bull" auto-OC feature, but whenever I toggle it on, the whole system just freezes up. I have to hard reset the rig, and once I turn that garbage off, it runs fine again. I was thinking about trying a manual overclock, but if even this useless ASUS auto-overclock can't handle it, what's the deal? Could it be my power supply acting up? Thanks.
The rest of my build:
Intel Core i7
EVGA power supply
ASUS motherboard
EVGA GeForce GTX series
Apple SSD 250GB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB
LC Power LC CC 97
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 2x4gb 1600MHz

That board isn't really built for serious overclocking

Sell off that ASUS motherboard if you're planning on overclocking, and grab an 8+2 phase board instead $233futura-it.us

Alexander Moore67 said:Sell that ASUS motherboard if you're planning on overclocking and grab one with an 8+2 phase setup instead.$233futura-it.us

That's what I was thinking. Totally botched my build by not picking up a better mobile board from the start. Thanks!

And look, you aren't going to see any massive clock speed gains just by swapping out that cooler...☕

analogtiger19 said:Look, even with that cooler, you aren't exactly going to hit massive overclocking numbers...☕

True. If I end up grabbing a new mobile setup, I'll definitely budget for a better cooler too. Probably just grab a Cooler Master T4. Thanks for the heads up! 🙂