Intel Desktop Control Center, anyone use it?

[Kristi2k]

Just wondering what everyone though of Intel's new program? I have a board that supports it. I don't have the PC built yet (waiting on the case).

 

[RalfHutter]

There's a couple of guys over at Asusboards forums (abxforums) that have been using it. Apparently it's mostly useful for setting your fan speeds so they run slow (and quiet) when the case is cool and speed up as the system gets warmer. Any of the settings related to CPU OCing (still only ±4% using the software) or memory timings are just replicated from the BIOS and you need to reboot after changing them anyway so there's no particular advantage to setting them from within Windows with the ICC vs. doing it from within the BIOS.

You do need to make sure you've flashed to the latest BIOS (P16 for the 875PBZ, and P12 for the 865PERL) to use ICC. Your board almost assuredly won't have the latest BIOS on it.