I just installed the following in my gaming pc to catch up a bit on my BF2 performance 
Asus Extreme AX800XL pcie
Asus A8N-E motherboard
A64 3200+
However I am a bit stuck in and confused about the process of installing the multitude of drivers and utilities that come bundled with the above, and now I am in need of some advice as to what to install.
GOAL:
For now I am not interested in overclocking, at least not at the expense of added noise or heat.
However, I would like to use the ability of the gear (AMD Cool'n'Quiet and the ASUS gpu and m/b equivalents) to adjust fan speed (and overclocking) according to temperature and load.
Finally, I'd like to install as few as possible drivers and utilities to keep my system free from feature clutter that I dont need, and to avoid as many as possible of the really ugly utilities (why oh why are they so ugly and not-streamlined?).
Asus A8N-E motherboard & A64 3200+
I find a multitude of overlapping options here and Im having a hard time finding out what to use. I wonder if anybody has managed to get on top of this and could give me some advice as to what to use.
Asus Probe seems to be the utility for monitoring fanspeed and temperatures from Asus, I wonder if AMD Cool'N'Quiet doest the same. Asus has a Cool & Quiet, which seems just to monitor CPU frequency and voltage.
More importantly (and confusing for me) theres Asus Ai Booster, Amd Cool'n'Quiet and Nvidia Ntune which all seems to provide realtime tuning of over/underclocking according to load (and heat?). What should I use here? Is the Asus utility better than the one from AMD? The one seems to rule out the other, at least Asus Ai Booster complains if Cool'n'Quiet is turned on in bios.
Also, do I need to install a driver for my AMD64 (im using wxppro)?
As my post probably shows, im quite confused here Im hoping someone can help me.
Thanks
Asus Extreme AX800XL pcie
Asus A8N-E motherboard
A64 3200+
However I am a bit stuck in and confused about the process of installing the multitude of drivers and utilities that come bundled with the above, and now I am in need of some advice as to what to install.
GOAL:
For now I am not interested in overclocking, at least not at the expense of added noise or heat.
However, I would like to use the ability of the gear (AMD Cool'n'Quiet and the ASUS gpu and m/b equivalents) to adjust fan speed (and overclocking) according to temperature and load.
Finally, I'd like to install as few as possible drivers and utilities to keep my system free from feature clutter that I dont need, and to avoid as many as possible of the really ugly utilities (why oh why are they so ugly and not-streamlined?).
Asus A8N-E motherboard & A64 3200+
I find a multitude of overlapping options here and Im having a hard time finding out what to use. I wonder if anybody has managed to get on top of this and could give me some advice as to what to use.
Asus Probe seems to be the utility for monitoring fanspeed and temperatures from Asus, I wonder if AMD Cool'N'Quiet doest the same. Asus has a Cool & Quiet, which seems just to monitor CPU frequency and voltage.
More importantly (and confusing for me) theres Asus Ai Booster, Amd Cool'n'Quiet and Nvidia Ntune which all seems to provide realtime tuning of over/underclocking according to load (and heat?). What should I use here? Is the Asus utility better than the one from AMD? The one seems to rule out the other, at least Asus Ai Booster complains if Cool'n'Quiet is turned on in bios.
Also, do I need to install a driver for my AMD64 (im using wxppro)?
As my post probably shows, im quite confused here
Im hoping someone can help me.Thanks
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