Plug and play overclocking

It used to be a dark art that involved crashing your PC routinely and opening up the case to slowly pick up those tiny jumpers to reset your BIOS settings. Yes, I’m talking about overclocking your PC – an once-backbreaking hobby.

These days, PC buffs have it so easy. A failed overclock leads to an automatic BIOS reset to boot up the PC (without having you fiddle with jumpers on the motherboard). And there are even software tools allowing you to overclock on-the-fly while in Windows.

And it’d get easier. Asus last week unveiled its latest ROG OC Station, a hardware-based overclocking gizmo that lets you dial your overclock with a large knob at the front of the PC. …